Stine Engebretsen (born 1975) is a Staff Development Nurse. She has a postgraduate diploma in emergency nursing and has an MA degree in clinical nursing. The author has completed the ICMJE form and ...
Introduction In the Netherlands, the ‘Netherlands Triage Standard’ (NTS) is frequently used as digital decision support system for telephone triage at out-of-hours services in primary care (OHS-PC).
Background Patients often establish initial contact with healthcare institutions by telephone. During this process they are frequently medically triaged. Purpose To investigate the safety of ...
2 School of Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK Background The ESTEEM trial was a cluster randomised controlled trial that compared two ...
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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 ...
Telephone triage in the dermatology practice is unlike telephone triage in other specialties, in several ways. First, there are few dermatologic emergencies, so the threshold question will not usually ...
The important questions that teams can use to identify incoming potential emergency cases, ways to classify the different types of emergencies you will encounter, and how to be best prepared are ...
For Dayton-area veterans, emergency medical advice or prescription services could be a phone call away. The Department of Veterans Affairs is offering “tele-emergency care” services for enrolled ...
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Referral pathways from ambulance providers into urgent community response (UCR) services are in place in many areas of the country, but there is variation in approach. Although there has been ...