Adherence to the guideline ‘Triage in emergency departments’: a survey of Dutch emergency departments
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Triage in Norwegian emergency departments.
BACKGROUND An increasing number of patients and stricter requirements for quality and efficiency in the management of emergency patients have spurred several Norwegian emergency departments (EDs) to introduce triage as one of several measures. This introduction has taken place without any accompanying research. We therefore wanted to investigate the use and organisation of triage, as well as th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Nursing
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0962-1067
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2011.03698.x