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 ...

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 ...

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 ...