Background and objectives: The Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME) has obligated health settings to follow the reference guidelines developed by the Ministry in implementing of emergency department triage system. The present study aimed at auditing the compliance of emergency department triage system in Shahid Madani hospital, in terms of compliance with MOHME guideline, an...

OBJECTIVE Violence is widespread in Australian emergency departments (ED) and most prevalent at triage. The aim of the present study was to identify the causes and common acts of violence in the ED perceived by three distinct groups of nurses. METHODS The Delphi technique is a method for consensus-building. In the present study a three-phase Delphi technique was used to identify and compare w...

introduction: triage is a response to the problem of overcrowding in emergency departments (eds) and accuracy of decisions made by the triage unit affects the ultimate outcome of eds. this study was conducted to evaluate the knowledge of triage among last year medical students in shiraz university of medical sciences. methods: this is a cross-sectional analytical study whose subjects were all t...

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 Streamlining the triage process is the key in improving emergency department (ED) workflow. Our objective was to determine if parents of pediatric ED patients in, low-literacy, inner-city hospital, who used the audio-assisted bilingual (English/Spanish) self-triage kiosk, were able to enter their child's medical history data using a touch screen panel with greater speed and accuracy ...

The Australian prehospital pandemic risk perception study and an examination of new public health roles in pandemic response for ambulance services. and The Australian prehospital pandemic risk perception study and an examination of new public health roles in pandemic response for ambulance services. (2008). The Australian prehospital pandemic risk perception study and an examination of new pub...