Information, is a valuable commodity and its effective use is a vital part of everyday life. With the advancements of the internet and the increasing accessibility to it, the location of information is no longer the primary concern of information seekers. Digitisation techniques have made a wide variety of documents available on-line, and more and more publications are being published in electr...

Since the time of the Napoleonic wars, health care providers have discussed, debated and invented multiple triage systems designed to rapidly triage victims in order to save the most lives. A key medical procedure in a mass casualty incident (MCI) is the rapid and accurate sorting of victims with life, limb, or serious injuries from those without. There are different triage methods proposed for...

This paper presents preliminary analysis from a validation study of a novel emergency medicine command and control training and evaluation simulator: DIGEMERGO®. The simulated emergency scenario was a surge capacity event at a generic emergency department, in which the participants took on a management role as the emergency department’s coordinating head nurse. A between group validation design...

Most hospital Emergency Departments (ED's) use triage systems that classify and prioritize patients almost exclusively on the basis of urgency. We propose a new triage system that incorporates patient complexity as well as urgency. Using a combination of analytic and simulation models, we demonstrate that complexity-based triage can substantially improve both patient safety (i.e., reduce risk o...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relation between deprivation category, triage score and accident and emergency (A&E) attendance for children under the age of 13. DESIGN Retrospective study of all children attending an A&E department over one year. SETTING A paediatric teaching hospital in Edinburgh. SUBJECTS All children attending the A&E department who had a postcode and a triage score docume...

The increasing number of mobile devices being submitted to Digital Forensic Laboratories (DFLs) is creating a backlog that can hinder investigations and negatively impact public safety and the criminal justice system. In a military context, delays in extracting intelligence from mobile devices can negatively impact troop and civilian safety as well as the overall mission. To address this proble...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to discuss on the influential factors of the mode of classification of partition management in the emergency triage. METHOD Retrospectively analyzing the effects of emergency triage of 156 cases who adopted the classification partition management mode during Oct 2014 to Oct 2015 in Xuzhou Central Hospital (Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China). They were divided...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE An influenza pandemic has the potential to overwhelm intensive care resources, but the views of the general public on how resources should be allocated in such a scenario were unknown. We aimed to determine Australian and New Zealand public opinion on how intensive care unit beds should be allocated during an influenza pandemic. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS A pos...

OBJECTIVES To examine the effectiveness of a five-level Paediatric Triage and Acuity System (Ped-TTAS) by comparing the reliability of patient prioritisation and resource utilisation with the four-level Paediatric Taiwan Triage System (Ped-TTS) among non-trauma paediatric patients in the emergency department (ED). METHODS The study design used was a retrospective longitudinal analysis based o...

The paper describes an Internet-based decision support system that will help emergency room (ER) medical personnel in triage of children with an abdominal pain. The system will be suited for admission management procedures typical for Canadian and Polish pediatric hospitals. At present a child complaining of an abdominal pain is initially triaged in ER as: appendicitis (requiring surgical consu...