The association between vital signs and mortality in a retrospective cohort study of an unselected emergency department population

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• 作者：Malin Ljunggren ; Maaret Castrén…
• 关键词：Emergency department ; Vital signs ; Mortality ; Triage
• 刊名：Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：24
• 期：1
• 全文大小：501 KB
• 刊物主题：Emergency Medicine; Traumatic Surgery;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1757-7241

文摘

Background Vital signs are widely used in emergency departments. Previous studies on the association between vital signs and mortality in emergency departments have been restricted to selected patient populations. We aimed to study the association of vital signs and age with 1-day mortality in patients visiting the emergency department.