Electronic Alerts for Triage Protocol Compliance Among Emergency Department Triage Nurses
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Emergency department triage revisited.
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عنوان ژورنال: Nursing Research
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0029-6562
DOI: 10.1097/nnr.0000000000000094