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Early Quick Acuity Score Provides More Complete Data on Emergency Department Walkouts

INTRODUCTION: Many prior studies have compared the acuity of Emergency Department (ED) patients who have Left Without Being Seen (LWBS) against non-LWBS patients. A weakness in these studies is that patients may walk out prior to the assignment of a triage score, biasing comparisons. We report an op...

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Autores principales: Lovett, Paris B., Kahn, J. Akiva, Greene, Stuart E., Bloch, Matthew A., Brandt, Daniel R., Minckler, Michael R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3894997/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24465699
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0085776