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Obstetric Triage Improvement
<p>The objective of the obstetric triage improvement project is to decrease the average length of stay for perinatal patients presenting to the obstetric triage. The setting is a university hospital in a large urban city. The population includes pregnant patients with obstetric complaints …
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Major incident triage: development and validation of a modified primary triage tool
… the effective management of a major incident is triage, prioritising patients on the basis of their clinical acuity. However, existing methods of primary major incident triage demonstrate poor performance at identifying the Priority One patient in need of a life-saving intervention. The aim of …
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Triage Training: Improving Access to Care
… in a 24 hour acute care hospital setting.</p> <p>Triage training was identified as a necessary first-step for improving the unit efficiency and increasing patient satisfaction. While the Emergency Severity Index (ESI) 5 tier process has been in place, staffing changes have caused a knowledge gap …
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Assisting bug report triage through recommendation
… reports added to the repository need to be triaged by a human, called the triager, to determine if reports are meaningful. If a report is meaningful, the triager decides how to organize the report for integration into the project's development process. We call triager decisions with the goal …
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Oktoberfest-Triage-Evaluationsstudie 1998 (OTES ’98)
… muß in dieser Situation eine Patientensichtung (Triage) durchgeführt werden. Im Rahmen dieser Sichtung soll vor Ort in möglichst kurzer Zeit eine Einstufung sämtlicher Patienten nach zunehmender Verletzungsschwere erfolgen und auf deren Basis über die Art und Reihenfolge der medizinischen …
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A Comparison of Patient Satisfaction in Traditional Emergency Department Triage and Fast Track Triage Systems of Care
<p>Ninety-two persons who used the Emergency Department (ED) services of a 475 bed, midwestern teaching hospital were surveyed to determine patient satisfaction before and after implementation of a fast track system of care. Respondents were asked to return a mailed questionnaire which solicited …
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Telephone street triage : a service user perspective
… this many new initiatives were developed, Street Triage being one. This allows the police immediate access to a mental health professional when they find themselves attending an incident or event that has a mental health component. Whilst there is an emerging body of research focusing on the …
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Telephone Advice and Triage within Paediatric Oncology.
The topic of telephone triage is of particular interest to the author who works in a paediatric Oncology Unit which is the principal treatment centre for children’s cancers within the Merseyside and Cheshire Cancer Network. This Unit provides 24 hour telephone advice for patients, families and …
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Statistical Debugging and Automated Program Failure Triage
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Mobile forensic triage for damaged phones using M_Triage
Mobile forensics triage is a useful technique in a digital forensics investigation for recovering lost or purposely deleted and hidden files from digital storage. It is particularly useful, especially when solving a very sensitive crime, for example, kidnapping, in a timely manner. However, the …
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Comparison of Two Methods of Pediatric Triage Education
… are seen in mixed-age emergency departments and triaged by general emergency nurses. Educational methods for teaching pediatric triage education to general emergency nurses have not been well studied, and previous studies of the use of the Emergency Severity Index in children have been performed …
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Decision Support for Casualty Triage in Emergency Response
Mass-casualty incidents (MCI) cause a sudden increase in demand of medical resources in a region. The most important and challenging task in addressing an MCI is managing overwhelmed resources with the goal of increasing total number of survivors. Currently, most of the decisions following an MCI …
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Patient Satisfaction with Emergency Nursing Related to Triage Category
<p>Sixty-six patients who used the Emergency Department of a 450 bed midwestem hospital were surveyed to determine level of satisfaction with Emergency Department nursing care. Participants were asked to complete a survey upon discharge as a patient from the Emergency Department. The survey …
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Political Triage: Health and the State in Myanmar (Burma)
In 1988, the military government in Myanmar abandoned the socialist ideology and isolationism that had shaped the state since independence, embarking on a transition to an open economy and engagement of the international community. ¶ Where socialism had failed, economic development and partnerships …
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Political Triage: Health and the State in Myanmar (Burma)
In 1988, the military government in Myanmar abandoned the socialist ideology and isolationism that had shaped the state since independence, embarking on a transition to an open economy and engagement of the international community. ¶ Where socialism had failed, economic development and partnerships …
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Triage-driven diagnosis for early detection of oesophageal cancer
… established decision pathways to define eight triage classes of varying priority for manual expert review. By substitution of manual review with automated review in low-priority classes, I can reduce pathologist workload by 57% while matching the diagnostic performance of expert pathologists.
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Multi-triage: A Multi-Task Learning Approach to Bug Triaging
Bug triage plays a significant role in software maintenance activities, including optimization, error correction, and feature enhancement. Triage is the procedure of assigning the severity, issue type, and developer to resolve the issue in the most effective order. Performing triage is …
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The Experience of Decision-Making among Telephone Advice/Triage Nurses
The role of the telephone advice/triage nurse is both complex and demanding. All decisions are made while assessing patients without seeing or touching patients. In addition, the role is often developed to decrease health care costs which can be perceived by nurses as being in conflict with their …
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Performance characteristics of the South African Triage Scale (Adult version)
The South African Triage Scale (SATS) was first implemented as an emergency centre triage scale in the Western Cape Province in 2006. This thesis describes the performance characteristics of the SATS when used by different levels of health care workers in Emergency Centres in the province. It …
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Triage in Health Department of Western Australia accident and emergency departments
A survey of triage systems used in Health Department of Western Australia accident and emergency departments was undertaken to examine differences in practices between departments with and without designated triage nurses (TNs). One questionnaire surveyed 93 nurses in seven departments with TNs, a …
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