Nurse triage may reduce workload in accident department
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Report of an audit of nurse triage in an accident and emergency department.
The nurse triage process in an accident and emergency (A&E) department was audited as part of the nursing quality assurance programme. It was found that in most cases documentation was adequate and guidelines had been adhered to. Triage decisions were accurate in most cases using the discharge diagnosis as a bench-mark. Waiting time improvements were also seen. Triage audit was a useful tool in...
متن کاملEvaluation of nurse triage in a British accident and emergency department.
OBJECTIVE To compare formal nurse triage with an informal prioritisation process for waiting times and patient satisfaction. SETTING Accident and emergency department of a district general hospital in the midlands in 1990. DESIGN Patients attending between 8:00 am and 9:00 pm over six weeks were grouped for analysis according to whether triage was operating at time of presentation and by th...
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AIMS AND METHOD To investigate whether nurse triage might reduce junior doctors’on-call workloads in a general adult psychiatry in-patient unit, we measured changes in workload after the introduction of a limited (overnight and weekend mornings) nurse triage service on the unit, comparing pretriage work levels with levels 1 year later. This time frame allowed the new service to settle in, and c...
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There is no doubt that many patients who attend accident and emergency (A&E) departments have minor conditions which do not always merit immediate hospital treatment and could be treated by a general practitioner (GP) (Davison et al., 1983; Cliff & Wood, 1986). Such patients are termed 'inappropriate attenders', as they are not considered emergencies by the staff of the A&E department and may n...
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Workload of the Accident & Emergency (A&E) Department at Barnet General Hospital was studied over a 1-year period. All new patients were divided into Activity-Related Groups (ARGs). Doctor work hours, for the year, were calculated utilizing the ARGs. This provided an estimate of the minimum required staffing level. ARGs are a potentially useful tool in auditing workload of individual doctors an...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.311.7019.1575