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 ...

Objectives: To examine the perceptions that those working in primary care have about the purpose and impact that telephone triage by nurses may have on their clinical roles and identities. Methods: ...

Tele-triage may offer an innovative strategy to help contain the increase in ED costs and volume for chest pain. Telehealth technologies (including telephone, email, video, and remote monitoring ...

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 ...

People who feel ill but are unsure whether to wait to seek treatment, head to the emergency room or call their doctor’s answering service have another option — “telephone triage” through the Vista ...

Demand for general practice appointments is rising rapidly, and in an attempt to deal with this, many practices have introduced systems of telephone triage. Patients are phoned by a doctor or nurse ...

Did you ever play a party game called Squeak Piggy Squeak? One player sits blindfold in the middle of a circle and has to guess the identity of a playmate who squeals on command. Now there’s a similar ...

Washington, D.C., has one of the highest rates of 911 calls in the country, and 1 in 4 of them are not for real emergencies. They're for twisted ankles or coughs, rashes, that kind of thing. So D.C.

NHS Direct nurses who faced a pay cut if they transferred to the new NHS 111 service have now been told their salary will be protected for at least a year. Subscribe today for unlimited access to ...