Triage and vital signs in a population discharged from and readmitted to the ED
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Methods Patients were identified from a national database and evaluated through an audit of electronic patient files with registration of the following criteria; triage-level, vital signs, medical problems and diagnosis, supplemented with the vital signs monitored the last day before discharge from the first hospitalization. The vital signs were summarized to a standardized score called BOS. The triage system is a 5 point-scale in colours, where 1 compared to “red” resuscitation. Data were evaluated with a Mann-Whitney non-parametric statistic for paired data.
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