Key aspects of the service such as an easy-to-remember number, emphasis on fast triage and smooth transfer to the 'right service, first time' are desired by the general public.
Among INDUS (like ACACON) fast triage applications are important – more so than in the regulatory community.
It means that we might be able to bypass the first step of the CTAS, which is the identification of the chief complaint of the patient, thus leading to faster triage and avoiding issues in patients with multiple complaints.
This treatment effect may result from faster triage and initiation of care in the ED.
Also, recent studies indicate that coronary CT angiography can be helpful for a fast and cost-effective triage of chest pain patients [ 6, 7].
For developing countries, he argued, the rats are a fast and affordable life-saving triage tool.
In conclusion, the specific dual-source CT protocol for chest pain assessment proved to be a very helpful tool offering a fast diagnostic workup and patient triage.
The aforementioned discussion assumes that a hospital does not implement a fast track for patients at triage level IV and V.
In our model, a system with a fast track places paitents at triage level IV and V on an express line, and the other patients will be put on the regular line.
Our implementation of patient triage and a fast track (organisational intervention) in combination with cultural measures (hospital-based action team; involvement of several groups of health professionals) led to decreased treatment costs of emergency outpatients in the newly installed H-GP-unit.
Such patients were transferred into a parallel priority dental treatment triage stream, guaranteeing a "fast track" access to clinical assessment, between 24 hours and 10 days depending on their condition together with appropriate care.
