68 Background: Telephone triage is a vital part of today's oncology practice and is often not standardized and measured to allow for quality improvement. UPMC CancerCenter (UPMC) has 31 outpatient clinics and is in need of a tool to streamline the current telephone triage process. UPMC and Via Oncology collaborated to develop and pilot a prototype of an electronic telephone triage application. ...

BACKGROUND Because the volume of patient admissions to an emergency department (ED) cannot be precisely planned, the available resources may become overwhelmed at times ("crowding"), with resulting risks for patient safety. The aim of this study is to identify modern triage instruments and assess their validity and reliability. METHODS Review of selected literature retrieved by a search on th...

OBJECTIVE Overcrowding in emergency departments (ED) leads to reductions in quality of care. Consequently, several different triage tools have been developed to prioritise patient intake. Differences in emergency medical services in different countries have limited the generalisation of pre-existing triage systems; for this reason, specific algorithms corresponding to local characteristics are ...

As a result of the risk that radiological and nuclear disasters accidents will expose membersof public to unsafe amounts radiation, numerous emergency dosimetry approaches for triage have beenthoroughly explored. The current methods retrospective encompass variety biological, physical, andchemical procedures related radiation exposure human body. Additional items might be useful asfortuitous do...

When a large disaster happens, health care workers need to determine the priority of medical treatment and perform triage. In order to carry out emergency lifesaving activities at an actual disaster site quickly and accurately, frequent training is very important. However, current training has issues such as cost, many time and effort to prepare, as well as not being able to consider changes of...

BACKGROUND We aimed to evaluate the clinical usefulness of qSOFA as a risk stratification tool for patients admitted with infection compared to traditional SIRS criteria or our triage system; the Rapid Emergency Triage and Treatment System (RETTS). METHODS The study was an observational cohort study performed at one Emergency Department (ED) in an urban university teaching hospital in Norway,...

BACKGROUND The Manchester triage system (MTS) is now widely used in UK accident and emergency (A&E) departments. No clinical outcome studies have yet been published to validate the system. Safety of triage systems is related to the ability to detect the critically ill, which has to be balanced with resource implications of overtriage. OBJECTIVES To determine whether the MTS can reliably detec...

BACKGROUND The Canadian Emergency Department Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) is a well recognized and validated triage system that prioritizes patient care by severity of illness. The aim of this study was to describe the results of Emergency Department (ED) waiting times after the implementation of the CTAS in a major tertiary care hospital emergency department outside of Canada. METHODS A to...

background and objectives: mthe emergency severity index (esi) triage is commonly used in clinical settings to determine the patients’ emergency severity. however, the reliability of this index is not sufficiently explored. the present study examines the inter-rater reliability of esi by comparing triage ratings as performed by nurses and physicians. methods: this prospective cross-sectional st...

We have developed an algorithm for triaging acute pediatric abdominal pain in the Emergency Department using the discovery-driven approach. This algorithm is embedded into the MET-AP (Mobile Emergency Triage Abdominal Pain) system – a clinical decision support system that assists physicians in making emergency triage decisions. In this paper we describe experimental evaluation of several data m...