Community pharmacies are a recognized source of health advice regarding bowel symptoms. This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of a validated self-administered questionnaire, Jodi Lee Test (JLT), for detection, triage, and referral of bowel symptoms suggestive of carcinoma, in pharmacies.Method...
Remote monitoring system of vital signs for triage and detection of anomalous patient states in the emergency room The monitoring of patient's vital signs is a crucial part of triage in the emergency room in order to determine the severity of their state. This paper des... S Moreno,A Quinte...
A triage system was established as the initiating mechanism for a trauma team response to assist the assessment and early management of patients presenting to an accident and emergency department. A checklist of triage criteria was used. During a 6-month period, 342 patients (29.7% of trauma adm...
Such a test could be used to screen for patients with a poorer physical condition, for example, the ASA physical status classification is widely used to triage patients for outpatient surgery or clinical admission for inpatient surgery. Of course, the risks related to the specific surgical ...
The key principle of the Specific Timely Appointments for Triage (STAT) model is that patients are booked directly into protected assessment appointments and triage is combined with initial management as an alternative to a waiting list and triage system....
This reallocation of resources creates greater opportunity to provide more-intensive treatment services to those who really need it. This paper proposes replacing the traditional assess-and-treat approach with an alternative model that bases treatment decisions on observed behavior: the behavioral triage ...
Trauma Team activation: accuracy of Triage when Minutes Count: a synthesis of literature and performance improvement process. J Trauma Nurs. 2019;26:208–14. https://doi.org/10.1097/JTN.0000000000000450. Article PubMed Google Scholar Cole E, Gillespie S, Vulliamy P, et al. Multiple organ ...
Notably, these antiangiogenic proteins play a key role in the pathogenesis of maternal disease, offering avenues for novel diagnostic tools such as risk calculators, predictive models and triage methods. Moreover, these antiangiogenic proteins have emerged as promising targets for therapeutic intervention...
Patients who needed same-day assessment at the PHC centre were allocated to a nurse on call rather than a physician on call. The aim of this study was to describe the staff’s experiences of introducing the triage and Nurse on Call model at the PHC centre. Methods Design This study has ...
Based on data collected via a suicide risk assessment, a suicide risk formulation is a process whereby the psychiatrist forms a judgment about a patient's foreseeable risk of suicidal behavior in order to inform triage decisions, safety and treatment planning, and interventions to reduce risk. ...