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

After severe abdominal pain sent her to the ER, a Canadian woman faced a 15-hour wait, as physicians warn of worsening ...

EMS doesn’t choose people — it prioritizes patients based on risk, access and the realities of an unstable scene ...

Artificial intelligence is being used in the NHS App to triage patients and offer GP appointments based on clinical need, with early data suggesting waiting times could fall from weeks to just a few ...

AI may not be the threat to human-centered care some fear. Experts say its impact will depend largely on how healthcare ...

Experts say differences in nurse line oversight, response-time standards and dispatch protocols across U.S. cities could affect how quickly patients receive care ...

Spine surgery is increasingly defined by a tension few outside the field fully see: the collision of clinical complexity and economic constraint. For surgeons like Oliver Tannous, MD, an orthopedic ...

To help prevent a backlog of patients in emergency rooms, Alberta hospitals should not cap the number of patients who can be ...

A nurse practitioner (NP)-led quality improvement project implementing a triage nurse intervention reduced the mean wait time and total encounter time at a walk-in clinic, but patient satisfaction ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) may help improve care for patients who show up at the hospital with acute chest pain, according to a new study. Artificial intelligence (AI) may help improve care for ...

Katherine Quesenberry, DVM, MPH, DABVP (Avian), chief medical officer, senior veterinarian, specialist in avian medicine and service head of avian and exotic medicine for Schwarzm ...

Some GP surgeries are starting to use artificial intelligence to triage patients before they book appointments. We asked the ...