Telephone triage has emerged as a pivotal component in modern primary care services, streamlining patient management and improving the allocation of healthcare resources. By enabling trained ...

If there is no way a practice can give patients timely appointments, then it makes sense to focus on offering safe telephone triage, to determine which patients need to be seen sooner, rather than ...

Tsukuba, Japan—In health care, triage involves categorizing patients by urgency levels so that the most urgent patients are prioritized to receive care. When patients are assigned a less urgent ...

WILLMAR -- Once a week Shawn Franklin takes her turn as one of the after-hours phone triage nurses for Affiliated Community Medical Centers. She has her cell phone and laptop, and a quiet place at ...

Implementation of a systematic method for the identification, tracking, and treatment of malnutrition in pediatric patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the ...

A semi-automatic phone triage system designed to help people with chest discomfort during the out of hours period is unsafe and unreliable, according to research published in the journal Open Heart.

Tele-triage may offer an innovative strategy to help contain the increase in ED costs and volume for chest pain. Telehealth technologies (including telephone, email, video, and remote monitoring ...

People who feel ill but are unsure whether to wait to seek treatment, head to the emergency room or call their doctor’s answering service have another option — “telephone triage” through the Vista ...

Novel organization models ensure early management of treatment-related adverse events (TRAEs) of new anticancer drugs. The aim of this prospective observational study was to evaluate the impact of the ...

The NHS needs to 'futureproof' its telephone triage systems to cope with increased demand and changing situations during national emergencies, the national health care safety watchdog has stated. In a ...