Our study showed, using a randomised trial method and comparing psychosocial outcomes for a year, that HPV triage actually caused less screening specific distress overall and resulted in greater satisfaction with management than repeat testing.
Our finding suggest, for example, that current changes in out-of-hours services (with increasingly centralised services and reliance on nurse triage) may cause more urban patients to divert themselves to emergency departments and more rural patients to delay consulting.
16 The joint triage is expected to cause patients with less urgent health problems to be diverted to the GPC, and patients with highly urgent health problems to be diverted mainly to the ED.
In the subsequent winter (2009/2010) a specialty triage telephone line was established, causing a reduction in primary-care visits relative to disease burden [ 1, 11].
Upon learning of this problem, I first went into triage mode, ruling out possible dangerous causes, including tuberculosis, a thyroid abnormality and rare tumors that release hormones.
Ambulance crew or patients already suspected CO poisoning as the cause of symptoms at triage in 30 (2%) of patients, half of whom were subsequently categorised in the study as positive.
Protocols for telephone triage include not only questions about possible causes and the consequences of the symptom presented but also questions to compensate for the lack of visual information about a patient's clinical condition.
It can help Twitter triage any damage this whole thing has caused.
The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy of HPLC in the emergency room and ICU for the unconscious and critical patients caused by intoxication compared with Triage® (Biosite Diagnostics, San Diego, CA, USA), which is the usual method.
There is no proof, however, that these differences are caused by the use of the triage system.
