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 ...

Strong evidence-based emergency triage education is essential to a robust ED, says this nurse leader. For many patients, the emergency department (ED) is the first point of contact they will have with ...

The analysis included 66 visits: 23 and 43 visits were assigned emergency severity index 2 and 3. HealthDay News — A majority of patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) with vaso-occlusive crisis (VOC ...

About The Study: In this study of 249,000 visits to seven academic and community hospital emergency departments, patients who identified as Black, Hispanic, and Other race and ethnicity were assigned ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with sickle cell disease who have vaso-occlusive crises often get delayed treatment in ED due to ...