Injuries and sicknesses vary when people show up to an ER for medical care, so doctors must decide, depending on the severity ...

When evaluating patients presenting to an emergency department (ED), a quick, visual assessment ("eyeball triage") is better than a formal triage when it comes to predicting mortality, a study has ...

UCLA Health is creating telehealth-specific triage protocols to help providers determine when it is appropriate to deliver care to patients via a virtual approach, according to a Dec. 30 NEJM Catalyst ...

I recently concluded a podcast series with Case IQ. Over this series, I visited with Sharlyn Lauby, Jakub Ficner, Kenneth McCarthy, and Meric Bloch on the different facets of a great speak-up regime ...

Like many health systems, Allentown, Pennsylvania-based Lehigh Valley Health Network had been facing the problem of long wait times in its emergency departments. To confront the problem, Lehigh Valley ...

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An Ohio hospital's provider-in-triage model is generating clinical, financial, and strategic benefits, including lowering its rate of ER patients who leave without being seen. Grandview Medical Center ...

Telephone triage is an essential component of today's oncology practice, and it has grown in importance as the care of patients with cancer has transitioned from the inpatient to the outpatient ...

When a workplace injury occurs, employers with no medical training often must determine the severity of the injury and direct an employee to appropriate medical care. They may have to make on-the-spot ...

Anyone who is not in the medical profession and who has wandered into an emergency room may be baffled by the hours of waiting and the mysterious process by which nurses and doctors move patients ...

Shaving critical minutes off the time it takes to diagnose a heart attack and begin treatment could be as simple as the push of a button. Using a programmable button to page a phlebotomist for a blood ...