Aim Aim of this study is to identify signs and symptoms associated with identifying critically ill
patients by rapid triage assessment performed by nurses in an emergency department …

Study Objectives Emergency department (ED) triage prioritizes patients based on urgency of
care. A Web-based triage tool (eTRIAGE) has been developed with Canadian Triage and …

Introduction: Chest pain is a major reason for emergency department (ED) visits and acute
hospital admittance. Identifying patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) within the …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Emergency physicians need to consider potential differences in quality
of care across admitting services in their triage decisions. For emergency department (ED) …

Triage occurs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in emergency departments (EDs) across the
world. The prioritization of time-to-be-seen is essential to the patient encounter and is …

Background Chest pain is the second most common chief complaint in North American
emergency departments. Data from the US suggest that 2.1% of patients with acute …

Objective: Triage procedure is one of the most important aspects of emergency departments
as it has an undeniable role on the management of patients. It includes 5 categories based …

Triage is a process, not a place. Triage occurs when a decision is made about how urgently
a patient needs to see an emergency provider 1 without regard to which nurse or physician …

Background: Coronary acute disease is, because of its prevalence, morbidity and mortality,
an emergency medical situation that justifies a planned intervention of Emergency Medicine …

Aim More than six million patients with signs and symptoms suggestive of a heart attack
present to emergency departments (EDs) in the US each year. Of those diagnosed with …