Early one Saturday morning, I received a text message from the answering service about a patient who was having some mild anxiety since decreasing her estrogen and wanted to discuss these side effects ...

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 ...

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 ...

I just spent a 72-hour holiday weekend on call. In my practice this entails making rounds at the hospital each day with the back-up physician, attending any vaginal births that occur and taking all ...

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 ...

PATIENTS who receive telephone consultations from their GP or a nurse are more likely to need care in the month after their phone call than those who see a doctor face-to-face, a new study suggests.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Objective To compare the workloads of general practitioners and nurses and costs of patient care for nurse telephone triage and standard management of requests for same day appointments in routine ...

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 ...