Accident and emergency departments are still failing to assess asthma severity
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Accident and emergency departments are still failing to assess asthma severity.
OBJECTIVES To quantify the documentation of vital signs in children attending accident and emergency (A&E) for asthma and to assess whether indicators of severity were used appropriately. METHODS Records of all children aged 3 to 14 attending A&E for the treatment of asthma in four London hospitals over a three month period were examined for documentation of heart rate, respiratory rate, peak...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.20.4.329