Hypoalbuminemia as an Emergency Department Triage Indicator for Hospital Admission

Emergency department triage revisited.

Triage is a process that is critical to the effective management of modern emergency departments. Triage systems aim, not only to ensure clinical justice for the patient, but also to provide an effective tool for departmental organisation, monitoring and evaluation. Over the last 20 years, triage systems have been standardised in a number of countries and efforts made to ensure consistency of a...

Emergency department triage: an ethical analysis

BACKGROUND Emergency departments across the globe follow a triage system in order to cope with overcrowding. The intention behind triage is to improve the emergency care and to prioritize cases in terms of clinical urgency. DISCUSSION In emergency department triage, medical care might lead to adverse consequences like delay in providing care, compromise in privacy and confidentiality, poor ph...

Triage of children in an Emergency Department

Results A total of 81.9% (n=104) of the children were registered with triage colour indicating the level of urgency. This was done within a mean of 26.4 minutes from time of arrival. Children younger than 1 year old were significantly more likely not to be triaged compared to children older than 1 year old RR 2.78 (95% CI 1.31-5.93) (p=0.0249). Distribution of triage was; green (lowest level) 5...

Admission Indicators for Pre-hospital Emergency Medical Students

Background: Appropriate and timely response in urgent situations requires high knowledge, physical and mental preparedness. Since emergency medical technicians are the first professional respondents in the health system, selecting the right people among the candidates to study in this field is very important. Due to the fact that there was a no specific model in the country of Iran to propose t...

Predicting Hospital Patients' Admission to Reduce Emergency Department Boarding