Reliability and Validity of the Emergency Severity Index for Pediatric Triage
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Nurse-Physician Agreement on Triage Category: A Reliability Analysis of Emergency Severity Index
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عنوان ژورنال: Academic Emergency Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1069-6563,1553-2712
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00494.x