UMMC has set up a triage line to handle calls from patients. The telephone number is 601-815-0000. For medical emergencies, ...

A nurse practitioner-led triage intervention reduces wait and total encounter times; however, it has no effect on patient satisfaction rates, a quality improvement project reports.

Piotr is the CEO of Infermedica, a leading AI health company dedicated to improving preliminary symptom analysis and digital triage. The current pattern of care-seeking behavior is one area in which ...

UMMC extends clinic closures through Feb. 25 following a cyberattack, maintaining hospital operations and launching a patient triage line.

Reverse triage, or identifying hospitalized patients at low-risk for adverse events and discharging them to increase surge capacity during a sudden influx of patients can be useful in pediatric ...

Rib fractures occur in more than 10% of all trauma patients. 1 -3 Mechanisms of injury range from high-impact chest wall trauma to low-energy ground-level falls in the elderly. Fractured ribs can be ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A machine learning model can effectively triage primary care patients who have respiratory symptoms. One ...

Approximately 10% to 25% of facial trauma that presents to the emergency department (ED) involves an orbital fracture, while the overall rate of ocular injury in the setting of ocular fractures is low ...

Sickest Callers Cut the Line For EMS Help. Wake County EMS is overhauling how 911 calls are handled so the sickest patients jump to the front of the line instea ...

Background: Patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) currently face inacceptable delays in initial treatment, and long, costly hospital stays due to suboptimal initial triage and ...