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 ...

As the latest virus surge swamps hospitals, researchers consider the role machine learning could play in making decisions about care. The latest surge of COVID infections has hospitals crowded, ...

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 ...

Military medicine introduced the world to the idea of triage. The process of sorting the wounded — and identifying those needing urgent care – actually dates back to the days of Napoleon, long before ...

Veterinary triage prioritizes patients based on the urgency of their medical need, focusing on respiratory, circulatory, and neurological systems. Veterinary nurses and technicians are central to the ...

Occupational mental health cases are normally not emergencies. Yet, supporting management and HR to adopt a triage approach to initial evaluation and any subsequent intervention can pay dividends, as ...

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 ...

The presence of civilians and structures in the wildland/urban interface (WUI) increases the complexity of any WUI or wildland incident. In addition to typical firefighting challenges, firefighters ...