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 ...

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 ...

Telephone triage is an essential component of today's oncology practice, and it has grown in importance as the care of patients with cancer has transitioned from the inpatient to the outpatient ...

Telephone triage — taking calls from individuals seeking diagnosis — is a staple of medical practice. It is an undertaking which is full of risk. A study of the accuracy of diagnosis during telephone ...

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 ...

Early one Saturday morning, I received a text message from the answering service about a patient who was having some mild anxiety since decreasing her estrogen and wanted to discuss these side effects ...

WILLMAR -- Once a week Shawn Franklin takes her turn as one of the after-hours phone triage nurses for Affiliated Community Medical Centers. She has her cell phone and laptop, and a quiet place at ...

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 ...

If there is no way a practice can give patients timely appointments, then it makes sense to focus on offering safe telephone triage, to determine which patients need to be seen sooner, rather than ...

The potential value of telephone triage for patients and for the NHS have been the focus of a new English study. It concluded that patients who receive a telephone call-back from a doctor or a nurse ...