Telephone triage system has been introduced in many practices in an effort to deal with the rising demands for general practice appointments. Patients are phoned by a doctor or nurse who either ...

Demand for general practice appointments is rising rapidly, and in an attempt to deal with this, many practices have introduced systems of telephone triage. Patients are phoned by a doctor or nurse ...

Telephone triage has emerged as a pivotal component in modern primary care services, streamlining patient management and improving the allocation of healthcare resources. By enabling trained ...

If there is no way a practice can give patients timely appointments, then it makes sense to focus on offering safe telephone triage, to determine which patients need to be seen sooner, rather than ...

Tele-triage may offer an innovative strategy to help contain the increase in ED costs and volume for chest pain. Telehealth technologies (including telephone, email, video, and remote monitoring ...

Telephone triage is an essential component of today's oncology practice, and it has grown in importance as the care of patients with cancer has transitioned from the inpatient to the outpatient ...

Objectives: To examine the perceptions that those working in primary care have about the purpose and impact that telephone triage by nurses may have on their clinical roles and identities. Methods: ...

Did you ever play a party game called Squeak Piggy Squeak? One player sits blindfold in the middle of a circle and has to guess the identity of a playmate who squeals on command. Now there’s a similar ...

Demand for general practice appointments is rising rapidly, and in an attempt to deal with this, many practices have introduced systems of telephone triage. Patients are phoned by a doctor or nurse ...

That said, practices who take the advice will need a way to accommodate, in a timely way, patient requests to be seen as soon as possible. I have experienced frustration with a dermatology office’s ...