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An assessment of nurse-led triage at Connaught Hospital, Sierra Leone in the immediate post-Ebola period

INTRODUCTION: Nurse-led triage, using the South African Triage Scale, was introduced to the emergency centre of the tertiary referral hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone in early 2014 prior to the Ebola epidemic. The aim of this study was to measure the effectiveness of the process now that the count...

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Autores principales:	Lowsby, Richard, Kamara, Cecilia, Kamara, Michael, Nyhus, Hedda, Williams, Nathaniel, Bradfield, Michael, Harrison, Hooi-Ling
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	African Federation for Emergency Medicine 2017
Materias:	Original Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6234128/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30456108 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.afjem.2016.10.003

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