Patient classification systems.
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...These systems assess the patient’s level of illness and dependency in terms of staff qualifications and staff time required (Malloch & Conovaloff, 1999; Shroeder, Rhodes, & Shields, 1984)....
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...Several authors (Ardagh, 1999; Fullam, 2002; James, 1998; Zimmerman, 1999) suggest tools which include triage or severity codes as possible predictors of nursing care requirements while in America the Emergency Nurses Association (2003b) rejects triage as a predictor This research demonstrated that controlling for other variables 16% of variation in DNCT could be accounted for by triage code....
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...The need to account for the acuity of patients has lead to the use, by some authors, of triage scores as 47 a proxy to acuity (Ardagh, 1999; James, 1998)....
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...The work from New Zealand (Ardagh, 1999; James, 1998) appears to show closer agreement than the work from the USA (Emergency Nurses Association, 2003b; ENA Scientific Assembly, 1996, as cited in Zimmerman, 1999)....
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...73, very similar to the disease staging model [98]....
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