Demand for general practice appointments is rising rapidly, and in an attempt to deal with this, many practices have introduced systems of telephone triage. Patients are phoned by a doctor or nurse ...

Telephone triage is an essential component of today's oncology practice, and it has grown in importance as the care of patients with cancer has transitioned from the inpatient to the outpatient ...

Telephone triage — taking calls from individuals seeking diagnosis — is a staple of medical practice. It is an undertaking which is full of risk. A study of the accuracy of diagnosis during telephone ...

Objectives: To examine the perceptions that those working in primary care have about the purpose and impact that telephone triage by nurses may have on their clinical roles and identities. Methods: ...

Telephone triage has emerged as a pivotal component in modern primary care services, streamlining patient management and improving the allocation of healthcare resources. By enabling trained ...

Tele-triage may offer an innovative strategy to help contain the increase in ED costs and volume for chest pain. Telehealth technologies (including telephone, email, video, and remote monitoring ...

WILLMAR -- Once a week Shawn Franklin takes her turn as one of the after-hours phone triage nurses for Affiliated Community Medical Centers. She has her cell phone and laptop, and a quiet place at ...

Demand for general practice appointments is rising rapidly, and in an attempt to deal with this, many practices have introduced systems of telephone triage. Patients are phoned by a doctor or nurse ...

That said, practices who take the advice will need a way to accommodate, in a timely way, patient requests to be seen as soon as possible. I have experienced frustration with a dermatology office’s ...

The potential value of telephone triage for patients and for the NHS have been the focus of a new English study. It concluded that patients who receive a telephone call-back from a doctor or a nurse ...