Triage - Organization & administration
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Effect of self-triage on waiting times at a walk-in sexual health clinic.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY: Lengthy waiting times can be a major problem in walk-in sexual health clinics. They are stressful for both patients and staff and may lead to clients with significant health issues leaving the department before being seen ... Read more...

Experience with mass casualties in a subcontinent earthquake.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: A massive earthquake struck North Pakistan on 8 October 2005. The objective of this study was to evaluate the types of injuries and the procedures carried out on the admitted casualties, and to present recommendations based on these ... Read more...

Software-assisted spine registered nurse care coordination and patient triage--one organization's approach.

30 Jul 2009 Back disorders encompass a spectrum of conditions, from those of acute onset and short duration to lifelong disorders. The use of a traditional spine center model of patient flow, in which the patient is scheduled the first available appointment ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Triage - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Effect of self-triage on waiting times at a walk-in sexual health clinic. 29 Sep 2009
• Experience with mass casualties in a subcontinent earthquake. 30 Aug 2009
• Software-assisted spine registered nurse care coordination and patient triage--one organization's approach. 30 Jul 2009
• Black Saturday: the immediate impact of the February 2009 bushfires in Victoria, Australia. 4 Jul 2009
• Preparing for the worst. 29 Jun 2009
• Triage and management of accidental laboratory exposures to biosafety level-3 and -4 agents. 30 May 2009
• [Trial scale implementation in a pediatric emergency department] 30 May 2009
• [Primary care hospital for a mass disaster MANV IV. Experience from a mock disaster exercise] 30 May 2009
• [Overtriage must be avoided] 30 May 2009
• Dress for the occasion. 30 May 2009
• Do all pediatric patients who have a febrile seizure require transport by advanced life support? 29 Apr 2009
• High-profile death throws spotlight on error reports. 26 Apr 2009
• [Triage systems in central emergency units.] 30 Mar 2009
• Accountability and assessment of emergency drill performance at schools. 30 Mar 2009
• Effective triage can ameliorate the deleterious effects of delayed transfer of trauma patients from the emergency department to the ICU. 24 Mar 2009
• [Epidemic influenza in Mexico: the broken dogma and its lessons] 27 Feb 2009
• [A day with the triage nurse in the emergency service admission] 27 Feb 2009
• Care initiation area yields dramatic results. 27 Feb 2009
• Case managers in mass casualty incidents. 27 Feb 2009
• [Manchester triage system. Process optimization in the interdisciplinary emergency department] 30 Jan 2009

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Technical information about 'Triage'

Definition: The sorting out and classification of patients or casualties to determine priority of need and proper place of treatment.

Descriptor UI: D014218

Alternative terms: Triage; Triages;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N02.421.297.900;

History Note: 91(76); was see under EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES 1980-90; was see under EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICES 1976-79