Training interventions for improving telephone consultation skills in clinicians

A Vaona, Y Pappas, RS Grewal, M Ajaz… - Cochrane Database …, 2017 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Since 1879, the year of the first documented medical telephone consultation,
the ability to consult by telephone has become an integral part of modern patientcentred …

Telephone nurses' experience of problems with telephone advice in Sweden

AC Wahlberg, E Cedersund… - Journal of clinical …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
By telephoning a healthcare call centre, individuals in Sweden can consult a nurse to
discuss medical problems and health care accessibility, and to receive professional …

A novel approach for managing the growing demand for ambulance services by low-acuity patients

K Eastwood, A Morgans, K Smith… - Australian Health …, 2015 - CSIRO Publishing
Objective The aim of the present study was to describe the Ambulance Victoria (AV)
secondary telephone triage service, called the Referral Service (RS), for low-priority patients …

Nurse telephone triage: good quality associated with appropriate decisions

L Huibers, E Keizer, P Giesen, R Grol… - Family …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Background Triage at out-of-hours GP cooperatives (GPCs) is aimed at determining medical
urgency and guiding decisions. Both medical knowledge and communication skills are …

Validity of telephone and physical triage in emergency care: the Netherlands Triage System

Y Van Ierland, M van Veen, L Huibers, P Giesen… - Family …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Background. Due to emergency care overcrowding, right care at the right place and time is
necessary. Uniform triage of patients contacting different emergency care settings will …

Improving quality and safety of telephone based delivery of care: teaching telephone consultation skills

J Car, GK Freeman, MR Partridge… - BMJ Quality & …, 2004 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
The opportunity to consult by tele-phone is now an integral part of any modern patient
centred healthcare system. 1 The public values the option of consulting by telephone, citing …

Quality of communication during telephone triage at Dutch out-of-hours centres

HP Derkx, JJE Rethans, BH Maiburg… - Patient education and …, 2009 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To assess the quality of communication skills of triagists, working at out-of-
hours (OOH) centres, and to determine the correlation between the communication score …

[HTML][HTML] Safety in Teletriage by Nurses and Physicians in the United States and Israel: Narrative Review and Qualitative Study

M Haimi, SQ Wheeler - JMIR Human Factors, 2024 - humanfactors.jmir.org
Background: The safety of telemedicine in general and telephone triage (teletriage) safety in
particular have been a focus of concern since the 1970s. Today, telehealth, now subsuming …

Assessing communication skills of clinical call handlers working at an out-of-hours centre: development of the RICE rating scale

HP Derkx, JJE Rethans, JA Knottnerus… - British Journal of General …, 2007 - bjgp.org
Background Out-of-hours centres provide telephone support to patients with medical
problems. In most of these centres specially-trained nurses handle incoming telephone …

Understanding of and adherence to advice after telephone counselling by nurse: a survey among callers to a primary emergency out-of-hours service in Norway

EH Hansen, S Hunskaar - … journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency …, 2011 - Springer
Background To investigate how callers understand the information given by telephone by
registered nurses in a casualty clinic, to what degree the advice was followed, and the final …