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Primary triage nurses do not divert patients away from the emergency department at times of high in-hospital bed occupancy - a retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: Emergency department (ED) overcrowding is frequently described in terms of input- throughput and output. In order to reduce ED input, a concept called primary triage has been introduced in several Swedish EDs. In short, primary triage means that a nurse separately evaluates patients who...

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Autores principales: Blom, Mathias C, Erwander, Karin, Gustafsson, Lars, Landin-Olsson, Mona, Jonsson, Fredrik, Ivarsson, Kjell
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5034663/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27658706
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12873-016-0102-5

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