Nonurgent patients in the emergency department? A French formula to prevent misuse. BMC Health Serv Res. 2010;10(1):1–6. Article Google Scholar Tsai JC-H, Liang Y-W, Pearson WS. Utilization of emergency department in patients with non-urgent medical problems: patient preference and ...
Triage nurses document a validated Emergency Severity Index (ESI, version 4) as part of usual care in the ED, but not the OUCC. The ESI ranks high-severity (level 1 – "patient dying"; 2 – "shouldn't wait") to lower-severity (level 5), with the three lower levels distinguished by...
(AMCH) in one year you will find a total number of emergency visits exceeding 120,000 cases per year, Only 12,000 of them needed admission, that gave the idea that majority of cases treated in emergency departments are of minor non urgent nature which can be treated in primary...
The NHAMCS defines four levels of triage acuity: emergent (patient should be seen immediately or within 15 minutes), urgent (15-60 minutes), semi-urgent (1-2 hours), and non-urgent (2-24 hours). For the purpose of statistical comparison in this study, patients categorized by the NHAMCS ...