According to this definition, urgency is determined by a lay person and emergency services have two components; firstly evaluation and then, treatment. Most of the patients who come to an emergency department believe they have a problem requiring immediate medical care. In such cases, ED triage r...
The author reflects on policy direction for emergency mental health triage in Australia. He states that clients with mental illness presenting to emergency departments across Australia are assessed by staff using one of four mental health triage scales (MHTS) commonly in use across Australia. He ...
Department of Emergency Medicine, Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA Craig Newgard MD, MPH Corresponding author Correspondence to Craig Newgard MD, MPH . Editor information Editors and Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Co...
and patients that met the CDC definition for “person under investigation” were then triaged to either a tropical medicine clinic, emergency department, or specialized EVD
Ninety physicians (54%) had a hospital policy shift about triage out, positive in 90% of cases. Conclusion: Triage out in France is a usual practice, suffering from lack of supervision and official recommendations. 展开 关键词: Emergency Overcrowding Triage out ...
describes the policy responses, and finally, attempts to sort out what we have learned and not learned from this crisis and how to handle it so far... RA Eisenbeis - 《Atlantic Economic Journal》 被引量: 18发表: 2010年 Agent based simulation to optimise emergency departments Nowadays, many...
We therefore began to develop a process for rationing based on clinical and ethical principles and consideration of historical precedent for rationing in medicine to inform our emerging policy. Rationing has a long history in medical practice, dating at least to the early 19th century practice of ...
1.A process for sorting injured people into groups based on their need for or likely benefit from immediate medical treatment. Triage is used in hospital emergency rooms, on battlefields, and at disaster sites when limited medical resources must be allocated. ...
Conclusion The implementation of effective policies intended to improve both efficiency and quality in providing emergency health services has to deal with the systemic problem of inappropriate use of EDs. Policy-makers should be aware of the fact that there is a considerable portion of ED demand ...
Emergency Department Attendance after Telephone Triage: A Population-Based Data Linkage Study The Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) [7] is a 5-level triage system (level I = resuscitation (blue, to be seen immediately), level II = emergent (red, to be seen <15 min), level III =...