[1] in taking on the diffi cult dilemmas surrounding triage management and training tied to surge capacity and resource allocation within intensive care settings during pandemics. Studies on triage protocols arose primarily from critical care professionals awakened to those respon sibilities during severe acute respiratory syndrome and then re-challenged during the current H1N1 pandemic [2-4]. ...

BACKGROUND Due to emergency care overcrowding, right care at the right place and time is necessary. Uniform triage of patients contacting different emergency care settings will improve quality of care and communication between health care providers. OBJECTIVE Validation of the computer-based Netherlands Triage System (NTS) developed for physical triage at emergency departments (EDs) and telep...

Patients arrive at the hospital emergency department for treatment on a random basis. The amount of time required for treatment is a function of the triage level, the patient diagnosis, and the congestion that exists in the emergency department (ED) at the time of patient arrival. The implementation of electronic medical records in the ED permits the accurate tracking and examination of time to...

Patient waiting times and service quality problems characterize emergency departments worldwide. The purpose of this research is to develop a reliable decision support system using the Emergency Severity Index (ESI) triage method to drive improvements in the care delivery process, as part of a hospital Emergency Care Delivery System. Models were developed using first a relatively low fidelity s...

The excessive rate of patients arriving at accident and emergency centres is a major problem facing South African hospitals. Patients are prioritized for medical care through a triage process. Manual systems allow for inconsistency and error. This paper proposes a novel system to automate accident and emergency centre triage and uses this triage score along with an artificial intelligence estim...

The article by Devereaux et al1 has made a valuable contribution through the provision of detailed guidelines for mass critical care practice. However, it is important to further contextualize critical care triage as a core component of a broader triage system. Envisioning triage as systemic process emphasizes the crucial interrelationships among patient care, the process of central decision ma...

Stakeholders in disaster management settings often find the effective and efficient utilisation of emerging technologies quite a challenging process but very frequently a critical computational inclusion to the intelligence required for protecting individuals, communities, their environment and critical infrastructures. The special issue is dedicated to the dissemination of original contributio...

Background Adaptive process triage (ADAPT) is a triage system developed in Sweden in 2006. It is currently used by four University hospitals in the region of Stockholm and several other hospitals in Sweden. It is introduced in several hospitals in Denmark. ADAPT is based on a trace and trigger tool for vital signs according to the ABCD-principle and a short systematic questionnaire for each chi...