Objective: To assess the potential for patients to be assessed and discharged directly from triage in an emergency department (ED). Methods: Modelling was undertaken by collection of retrospective ...

Methods and analysis Patients visited by the emergency medical services (EMS ... of current study show that the HART-c triage method is effective in safely reducing unnecessary ED visits of patients ...

Participants Data on 29 523 earthquake casualties were separately evaluated using the START technique, CareFlight, REMS, T-RTS and TEWS, with these being the five types of ... and the medical ...

1 Therefore, great care should be taken in the initial diagnosis, risk assessment and triage ... type of transfer STEMI patients can be diagnosed in the pre-hospital phase in two ways. The first ...

It is not widely appreciated that ligament damage to the knee is more common than any other type of knee injury pathology (fig 1). 3 Many medical students, general practitioners, and paramedics may be ...

When implemented in the NTS algorithm, the model has the potential to substantially improve the triage of patients with shortness of breath. We also investigated how expressing concerns affects triage ...

The Medical School, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK; t.m.kilner{at}bham.ac.uk Objective: To examine the accuracy of theoretical triage decision making among emergency prehospital health care ...

mail.ubc.ca; Dr Jason Randhawa, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Centre, Lebanon ... In an effort to address this gap, we propose a two-component approach to EMU triage that takes into account the unique ...