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Marie Gerdtz
Researcher at University of Melbourne
Publications - 101
Citations - 2571
Marie Gerdtz is an academic researcher from University of Melbourne. The author has contributed to research in topics: Triage & Emergency department. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 89 publications receiving 2213 citations. Previous affiliations of Marie Gerdtz include Royal Melbourne Hospital & Australian Department of Health and Ageing.
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Emergency department triage revisited
TL;DR: A critical review of the literature pertaining to emergency department triage is provided to inform the direction for future research and to develop and test an International Triage Scale (ITS) which is supported by an international collaborative approach towards a triage research agenda.
Emergency department triage revisited
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a critical review of the literature pertaining to emergency department triage in order to inform the direction for future research, and propose an International Triage Scale (ITS) which is supported by an international collaborative approach towards a triage research agenda.
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A randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of soft silicone multi-layered foam dressings in the prevention of sacral and heel pressure ulcers in trauma and critically ill patients: the border trial.
Nick Santamaria,Marie Gerdtz,Sarah Sage,Jane McCann,Amy Freeman,Theresa Vassiliou,Stephanie De Vincentis,Ai Wei Ng,Elizabeth Manias,Wei Liu,Jonathan C Knott +10 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that multi‐layered soft silicone foam dressings are effective in preventing pressure ulcers in critically ill patients when applied in the emergency department prior to ICU transfer.
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Triage nurses' clinical decision making. An observational study of urgency assessment.
Marie Gerdtz,Tracey Bucknall +1 more
TL;DR: It was found that there was limited use of objective physiological data collected by the nurses' in order to decide patient acuity, and large variability in the duration of triage decisions observed, indicating strong evidence of a true difference between triage duration and a range of nurse, patient and environmental variables.
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Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of re-presentation to an Australian inner-city emergency department: implications for service delivery
TL;DR: Emergency department re-presentation rates cluster around one week after discharge and rapidly decrease thereafter, with housing status and being a recipient of a government pension being the most significant risk factors.