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Saturday, November 21, 2009

An observational cohort study of triage for critical care provision during pandemic influenza: 'clipboard physicians' or 'evidenced based medicine'?

30 Oct 2009 We assessed the impact of a United Kingdom government-recommended triage process, designed to guide the decision to admit patients to intensive care during an influenza pandemic, on patients in a teaching hospital intensive care unit. We found that ... Read more...

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...

Human papillomavirus typing and viral gene expression analysis for the triage of women with abnormal results from papanicolaou test smears to colposcopy.

29 Sep 2009 CONTEXT: A cascade of molecular tests for human papillomavirus (HPV), as a follow-up to Papanicolaou test screening, could eliminate unnecessary colposcopy. Tests based on detection of HPV E6 messenger RNA (mRNA) are already being used as screening ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Triage'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The Canadian Triage Acuity Scale and oncological emergencies in the emergency department: the puzzle pieces may not fit. 29 Nov 2009
• An observational cohort study of triage for critical care provision during pandemic influenza: 'clipboard physicians' or 'evidenced based medicine'? 30 Oct 2009
• Effect of self-triage on waiting times at a walk-in sexual health clinic. 29 Sep 2009
• Human papillomavirus typing and viral gene expression analysis for the triage of women with abnormal results from papanicolaou test smears to colposcopy. 29 Sep 2009
• Systematic telephone triage of possible 'swine' influenza leads to potentially serious misdiagnosis of infectious diseases. 8 Sep 2009
• Who should be delisted from urgent heart transplantation in Germany? 30 Aug 2009
• [Results following standardized routine at the emergency department. Fewer circulatory/respiratory arrest and increased survival with METTS] 30 Aug 2009
• A simplified set of trauma triage criteria to safely reduce overtriage: a prospective study. 30 Aug 2009
• Experience with mass casualties in a subcontinent earthquake. 30 Aug 2009
• Assigning E codes. 30 Aug 2009
• Single-contrast computed tomography for the triage of patients with penetrating torso trauma. 30 Aug 2009
• Heart rate variability as a triage tool in patients with trauma during prehospital helicopter transport. 30 Aug 2009
• Increased mean platelet volume in patients with acute coronary syndromes. 30 Aug 2009
• The use of exercise stress testing for the management of low-risk patients with chest pain. 30 Aug 2009
• Is female sex associated with ED delays to diagnosis of appendicitis in the computed tomography era? 30 Aug 2009
• [Prehospital trauma triage before and after deployment of a physician-manned mobile emergency care unit in Nordsjaelland] 29 Aug 2009
• Priority patients in a pandemonium. 17 Aug 2009
• [Emergency department X-rays requested by physicians or nurses] 8 Aug 2009
• Pedriatric emergency medicine: legal briefs. 30 Jul 2009
• The Emergency Severity Index Version 4: reliability in pediatric patients. 30 Jul 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