First, we measured general characteristics of both the hospital and the ED, including the number of hospital beds, acute care facilities, general facilities, number of ED visits per year, percentage of self-referrals and whether EDs used a triage system.
The experience of establishing an ED in Burao Hospital shows the importance of several key components: a physical infrastructure with a good patient flow, training of health care providers with continuous supervision, and the choice of an effective use of a triage system.
During hospital admission, routine treatment like assessing the patient's vital functions is the first priority for clinicians, and they use a medical triage system to prioritize patients who need emergency care [ 34].
To investigate whether a simple alternative (specific timely appointments for triage [STAT]) to the more common approach of managing demand using a waitlist with a triage system could reduce waiting time for a community rehabilitation program (CRP) without adverse impacts on patient care.
4 Almost all cooperatives (96%) used the NTS or a triage system that is comparable in content.
Thus, although cautiously, we infer that a self-referral psychological treatment centre using a telephone triage system can attract and select an adequate population of young clients in need of their services.
But in testimony before Congress last spring, a senior official from Mr. Negroponte's office, Daniel Butler, described a "triage" system used to sort out material that should remain classified.
This triage system had been locally developed to fit the characteristics and needs of pediatric patients, and was inspired by a triage system in use in Sweden named ADAPT (Adaptive Process Triage) [ 34].
Three articles addressed disaster medicine, the first of which described a triage system for use during pandemic influenza that demonstrated high reliability in delineating patients with a good chance of survival from those likely to die.
So Tony Pierantozzi, the school superintendent, tried a different tack: "We began a triage system.
