Undertriage in older emergency department patients--tilting against windmills?

Undertriage in older emergency department patients--tilting against windmills?

The aim of this study was to investigate the long-term effect of a teaching intervention designed to reduce undertriage rates in older ED patients. Further, to test the hypothesis that non-adherence to the Emergency Severity Index (ESI) triage algorithm is associated with undertriage. Additionally,...

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Main Authors: Florian F Grossmann, Thomas Zumbrunn, Sandro Ciprian, Frank-Peter Stephan, Natascha Woy, Roland Bingisser, Christian H Nickel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4143318?pdf=render

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