University of Mississippi Medical Center clinics will remain closed through Wednesday as work to ensure a safe network ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Implementation of a systematic method for the identification, tracking, and treatment of malnutrition in pediatric patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the ...

Tsukuba, Japan—In health care, triage involves categorizing patients by urgency levels so that the most urgent patients are prioritized to receive care. When patients are assigned a less urgent ...

A semi-automatic phone triage system designed to help people with chest discomfort during the out of hours period is unsafe and unreliable, according to research published in the journal Open Heart.

Novel organization models ensure early management of treatment-related adverse events (TRAEs) of new anticancer drugs. The aim of this prospective observational study was to evaluate the impact of the ...

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 ...

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 ...