OBJECTIVES Emergency department (ED) triage prioritizes patients based on urgency of care, and the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) is the national standard. We describe the inter-rater agreement and manual overrides of nurses using a CTAS-compliant web-based triage tool (eTRIAGE) for 2 different intensities of staff training. METHODS This prospective study was conducted in an urban te...

Background and Objectives: The Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME) has obligated health settings to follow the reference guidelines developed by the ministry in implementing the emergency department triage system. The present study aimed at auditing the compliance of the emergency department triage system in Shahid Madani Hospital in terms of compliance with MOHME guideline...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effectiveness of implementation of the pediatric Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (Ped-CTAS) for children visiting the pediatric emergency department (ED). METHODS This cross-sectional study evaluated all children presented to the ED during a 9-day period in March 2010. The Ped-CTAS triage system was used. Triage performance was analyzed on the basis of quality indi...

BACKGROUND Pneumococcal vaccination is an effective strategy to prevent invasive pneumococcal disease in the elderly. Emergency department (ED) visits present an underutilized opportunity to increase vaccination rates; however, designing a sustainable vaccination program in an ED is challenging. We examined whether an information technology supported approach would provide a feasible and sustai...

Introduction: Triage is a response to the problem of overcrowdingin Emergency Departments (EDs) and accuracy of decisions madeby the triage unit affects the ultimate outcome of EDs. This studywas conducted to evaluate the knowledge of triage among lastyear medical students in Shiraz University of Medical Sciences.Methods: This is a cross-sectional analytical study whose subjectswere all the sen...

causing numerous medically critically ill victims. The composition of our group was deliberately conceived to bring medicine, ethics, and public health experts together to collaboratively develop pragmatic, optimal clinical guidance. We knew that future work on critical care surge capability and triage for pediatric and trauma issues would be necessary, and work by Subbarao and colleagues7 has ...

considering the importance of the factors affecting customer satisfaction and loyalty, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between performance and characteristic of a online stores – digi-kala in this particular case, as a perfect example of an electronic customer relationship system, and customer's electronic loyalty and satisfaction. as a practical-descriptive, research, ele...

The history of triage started from the French battle field for prioritizing patients. Emergency triage was started in early 1950's in USA in order to treat the sickest first. It has now become an integral component of all emergency departments (ED). The basic aim of triage is not only to sort out patients according to the criticality of their illness, but it also serves to streamline the patien...