International Emergency Nursing
Volume 18, Issue 1 , Pages 36-40 , January 2010

Patient experience of the triage encounter in a Swedish emergency department

  • Katarina E. Göransson, RN, PhD (Nurse Manager of Research)

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
    • Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
    • Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Department of Emergency Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel.: +46 8 517 702 60; fax: +46 8 517 711 11.
    • ,
  • Anette von Rosen, MD, PhD (Associate Professor)

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
    • Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden

Received 7 July 2009 ,Revised 29 September 2009 ,Accepted 3 October 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.ienj.2009.10.001

International Emergency Nursing
Volume 18, Issue 1 , Pages 36-40 , January 2010

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