Triaging self-referred patients attending ophthalmic emergency room
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Triaging self-referred patients attending ophthalmic emergency room
OBJECTIVES To introduce an effective and safe ophthalmic triaging system to be used by non-ophthalmologists. METHODS A modified scoring triage system with more relevant clinical symptoms and signs from a previously published Rome Eye Scoring System for Urgency and Emergency (RESCUE) was evaluated over a 2-month period. The study was conducted following a prospective cohort design between Ma...
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عنوان ژورنال: Saudi Medical Journal
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0379-5284,1658-3175
DOI: 10.15537/smj.2015.6.11302