On average, the Emergency Department (ED) at IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital treats between 150 to 200 people each day. IU Health Ball is a level III Trauma Center, Stroke Certified, and a Chest Pain ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released the fourth version of its Emergency Severity Index, a triage tool for emergency department personnel. The Emergency Severity Index is a five ...

Triage, Critical Clinical Workflow Process, Chest Pain, Electrocardiogram (EKG), Door-to-EKG (DTE) Time Share and Cite: ...

Triage nurses in the emergency department at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore face a hard task. Just like in EDs across the country, they must decide in just a few minutes how critical a patient's ...

Clinicians in the emergency department are often short on time, so researchers at Johns Hopkins are arming them with an electronic tool aimed at improving efficiency at triage. Hopkins built the ...

When a patient arrives in any emergency department, one of the first steps in their care process is triage, an opportunity for a care team member to identify critically ill patients and assign ...

Hospital emergency departments (ED) are increasingly overwhelmed by patients with both, urgent and non-urgent problems. [1,2] This leads to crowded waiting rooms with long waiting times. As a ...

Emergency departments nationwide face mounting pressure, from rising patient acuity to staffing shortages and operational inefficiencies. In a recent discussion hosted by Becker’s Healthcare and ...