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Revision of the Canadian Emergency Department Information System (CEDIS) Presenting Complaint List Version 1.1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Eric Grafstein ,
Michael J. Bullard ,
David Warren ,
Bernard Unger  and
the CTAS National Working Group
Eric Grafstein*
Affiliation:
St. Paul's Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Michael J. Bullard
Affiliation:
University of Alberta Hospital and the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta.
David Warren
Affiliation:
Children's Hospital, London Health Science Center, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont.
Bernard Unger
Affiliation:
SMBD–Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montréal, Que.
the CTAS National Working Group
Affiliation:
includes representatives of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP), the National Emergency Nurses Affiliation (NENA), l'Association des médecins d'urgence du Québec (AMUQ), the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) and the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada (SRPC)
*
Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Paul's Hospital, 1081 Burrard St., Vancouver BC V6Z 1Y6; [email protected]

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Keywords

presenting complaintemergency department information systemsCTAS
Type
CAEP Update • Mise à jour de l'ACMU
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , March 2008 , pp. 151 - 161
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2008

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