A critical incident that was declared at a maternity unit all its lifts were left out of action has been lifted. The problems ...

A critical incident was declared at a maternity unit after both its lifts stopped working on Monday. The George Eliot ...

Background NHS 111 is a phone and online urgent care triage and assessment system that aims to reduce UK ED demand. In 2020, 111 First was introduced to triage patients before entry to the ED and to ...

Triage is a process that is critical to the effective management of modern emergency departments. Triage systems aim, not only to ensure clinical justice for the patient, but also to provide an ...

Triage and care pathways were complex, hard to navigate and involved multiple staff. In this context, patient safety often depended on individual staff taking initiative, speaking up or personalising ...

We took advantage of a change in protocol in an integrated delivery system’s telephone consultation service—routing callers complaining of chest pain to physicians instead of registered nurses ...

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 ...

Guidelines for Telephone Triage Carolyn Buppert, JD, CRNP Disclosures Dermatology Nursing. 2009;21 (1):40-41. Accommodating Patients ...

A triage nurse, unaware of these nuances, could misinterpret this, assigning a lower priority to a potentially critical condition like appendicitis." This highlights how the interplay of language and ...