background: one of the medical team’s responsibilities is to teach the methods of rescue and aid necessary for casualties who have been injured in disasters. they must be taken away of the place of disaster, transferred, categorized and cured. methods: delphi technique was used in this research. firstly, a number of questions were framed and sent to a number of experts of different majors. they...

Background: One of the medical team’s responsibilities is to teach the methods of rescue and aid necessary for casualties who have been injured in disasters. They must be taken away of the place of disaster, transferred, categorized and cured. Methods: Delphi technique was used in this research. Firstly, a number of questions were framed and sent to a number of experts of different majors. They...

objective: to determine the effects of triage education based on emergency severity index (esi) on promoting the knowledge and performance of nurses and qualitative indices of emergency department. methods: this study was a quasi-interventional study being performed in vali asr hospital of fasa university of medical sciences during 2012. for this purpose, 50 members of staff including nurses an...

A survey of 172 Australian triage nurses was undertaken to describe their scope of practice, educational background and to explore the self-reported influences perceived to impact on their decision-making. The survey results reveal variability in the educational requirements for nurses to triage. Indeed, over half of the nurses who participated in the study worked in emergency departments that ...

The aim of this study was to identify the organisation of and knowledge about triage work in Swedish emergency departments (ED) as a first step to understanding what is necessary for decision support in ED triage systems in Sweden. A national survey using telephone interviews for data collection was used. Results showed great variety in how work regarding ED triage is organised and performed. T...

background: the aim of the study was to discuss on the influential factors of the mode of classification of partition management in the emergency triage. method: retrospectively analyzing the effects of emergency triage of 156 cases who adopted the classification partition management mode during oct 2014 to oct 2015 in xuzhou central hospital (xuzhou, jiangsu province, china). they were divided...

PURPOSE The study tested the inter-rater reliability and accuracy of triage nurses' assignment of urgency ratings for mental health patient scenarios based on the 2008 Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) guidelines, using a standardized triage tool. The influence of triage experience, educational preparation, and comfort level with mental health presentations on the accuracy of urgency rati...

This review evaluates some of the international literature on triage in order to provide evidence-based data for the medical community in Saudi Arabia specifically and the Eastern Mediterranean Region in general. The aim is to encourage national health planners and decision-makers to apply formal triage systems in the emergency departments of general and specialist hospitals and other relevant ...

Triage, establishing the priority of care among casualties in disaster management, is generally practiced using constructive tabletop or live exercises. Actual disasters involving multiple casualties occur rarely, offering little opportunity for gaining experience and competency assessment. When they do occur, response needs to be rapid and well-learned. In the Iraqi medical education environme...

Nurses in a hematology/oncology practice are responsible for the triage and management of phone calls from a diverse oncology population. An initiative was developed at the authors' institution to identify the educational needs of RNs while designing strategies to educate and improve telephone triage skills. The goal was to standardize triage practice and ultimately improve the effectiveness of...