Examples of triage

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However, only two organizations used nurse triage, both large urban co-ops.
Likewise, it differs from battlefield triage in that the participants neither agreed nor expected to be involved in lifethreatening events.
During this type of triage, clinicians decide who to save when not all can be saved.
A decision is made at this triage meeting as to the best course of action in each case.
Triage procedures, following the concept of equity, are designed to provide equivalent treatment for those with equivalent needs - that is, to treat similar patients similarly.
They defined adherence to conscience in terms of triage.
Of the 381 patients referred to triage, 319 were admitted and 62 were refused admission.
The first is the one between conventional triage and mass casualty triage.
Several terms, including "triage," "rationing," and "allocation," are used to refer to the distribution of scarce resources in different healthcare contexts.
Because hypothetical consent to triage policies can be legitimately presumed, a triage allocation of emergency services is not likely to undermine social stability.
Triage is, therefore, not entirely compatible with utilitarianism, nor is it consistent with either fair equality of opportunity or prioritarianism.
Note that age, in and of itself, is not a triage criterion.
Over the history of making these allocation decisions, the transplant community has moved toward triage as the most appropriate standard for allocation.
The team perform a triage service, as well as treating and managing the care of appropriate patients.
However, patients with haematuria, which is a possible indication of malignancy, are referred to the urology triage team because such patients need a cystoscopy.
Many local emergency response divisions and hospitals have adopted triage procedures that will be used in case of a mass casualty incident.
Nurse practitioners also triage patients across the telephone or on the premises.
The hypothesis (verified by the data) was that crowding naturally affects admission chances, but for a given decision at triage, it does not affect survival.
The authors further emphasized the low sensitivity and specificity of triage decisions based on observed patients' characteristics.
Triage in this setting requires a separate analysis and justification; it bears little resemblance to normal civilian triage in its ultimate purpose.
On the battlefield, medical personnel allocate available resources mainly through triage.
Pediatric cardiologists have an expanding role as they follow up these children and triage other children with murmurs (which usually prove to be innocent [23]).
In those cases, the most likely response would be a classic triage rather than devising some sort of lottery scheme.
The article concludes with an analysis of three principles of distributive justice that have been proposed to guide triage decisions.
Most discussions about triage address practical questions, such as when the process should occur and which techniques are most effective.
Consequentialist considerations of efficacy and equality support the wellaccepted views on emergency triage.
In those cases, triage officers will need their experience to exert their will and not intervene medically.
Based on our analytical and numerical results, we develop several insights on patient triage in the immediate aftermath of a mass casualty event.
The accuracy of triage classifying emergency calls is important for the effective implementation of alternative responses to non-urgent calls.
However, we discuss most of our results and observations in relation to the patient triage problem when they are especially relevant and significant within that context.
In this case, immediately offering the patient another transplant organ would be wrong in that such an allocation would violate the triage principle that justice would require.
The potential effect, which is more appropriate for evaluation purposes, is estimated when possible unobserved correlations between survival prospects at triage and admission are taken into account.
Although it is painful to deny transplantation to needy patients and to triage them out of the possibility of having an organ transplant, the policy is considered to be just.
Triage for the biosphere : the need and rationale for taxonomic inventories and phylogenetic studies of parasites.
The calculation of potential benefits takes into consideration unobserved heterogeneity among patients at triage, where unobserved factors affect both the admission decision and survival, beyond the effects of observed characteristics.
In sum, policies adopted in the fall of 2001 suggest that emergency triage, public health research, and public health policy rely on more than a single principle of justice.
There are several parallel problems in wartime military triage and civilian disaster or emergency triage, for instance, in a pandemic flu situation with scarcity of antivirals and/or vaccines.
First, it should be noted that patient triage is an extremely complicated decision problem that involves a significant degree of human judgment in classifying patients and determining priorities.
The admission rate of patients with scores 21- 25 is 71 percent, and they are less frequent among admitted patients than among the population at triage.
Detainees were screened by medics and doctors at the wire, that was right out where the detainees are housed, and then triaged to the hospital for further care.
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