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Identifying pleuritic chest pain

01 June 2006

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

Chest pain is one of the most common clinical presentations to emergency departments (EDs) in the UK (Jones and Raghuram 1999), and establishing its cause depends on...

Appropriate categorisation of mild pain at triage: a diagnostic study

01 April 2005

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

The Manchester Triage System (MTS) offers emergency department practitioners a structure for decision making at triage and for providing urgent care to patients with...

The convergent validity of the manchester pain scale

01 April 2005

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

Objective To test the convergent validity of the Manchester pain scale when compared to the current ‘gold standard’ in children’s pain assessment, the Oucher pain...

Emergency triage

01 July 2013

Emergency Nurse

Letter

THANKS FOR the interesting article, Navigating triage to meet targets for waiting times (Emergency Nurse, June), which describes an attempt to make patient flow...

Open AccessMaking more nurses, one minute at a time: an efficiency and quality improvement project in emergency triage

05 January 2023

Emergency Nurse

service improvement

Emergency triage is a short-duration, high-volume process so small reductions in the time taken to triage one patient can have large repercussions on the total...