Lindroos, Linnéa Elden, Helen Karlsson, Ove Sengpiel, Verena
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Abstract Background Triage, identifying patients with critical and time-sensitive disorders, is an integrated process in general emergency medicine. Obstetric triage is more specialised, requiring assessment of both woman, fetus and labour status. Failure to identify severely ill obstetric patients has repeatedly led to maternal morbidity and morta...
Scanzera, Angelica C. Chang, Arthur Y. Valikodath, Nita Cole, Emily Hallak, Joelle A. Vajaranant, Thasarat Sutabutr Kim, Sage J. Chan, R. V. Paul
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BMC Ophthalmology
Background In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a web-based tele-triage system was created to prioritize in-person clinic visits and ensure safety at the University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences during a statewide shelter-in-place order. The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of the tele-triage sys...
Fistera, David Härtl, Annalena Pabst, Dirk Manegold, Randi Holzner, Carola Taube, Christian Dolff, Sebastian Schaarschmidt, Benedikt Michael Umutlu, Lale Kill, Clemens
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BMC Infectious Diseases
Background The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic remains a major challenge for worldwide health care systems and in particular emergency medicine. An early and safe triage in the emergency department (ED) is especially crucial for proper therapy. Clinical symptoms of COVID-19 comprise those of many common diseases; thus, differential diagnosis remains chal...
rensen, van osch, van bergh, van den
Introduction. To reduce the risk of nosocomial transmission, suspected COVID-19 patients entering the Emergency Department (ED) were assigned to a high-risk (ED) or low-risk (acute medical unit, AMU) area based on symptoms, travel and contact history. The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of our pre-triage screening method and...
Lindner, Tobias Campione, Alessandro Möckel, Martin Henschke, Cornelia Dahmen, Janosch Slagman, Anna
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Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin Und Notfallmedizin
Hintergrund Das Sachverständigengutachten zur bedarfsgerechten Steuerung der Gesundheitsversorgung 2018 empfiehlt zur Entlastung der klinischen Notfallversorgung unter anderem, dem Rettungsdienst die Option einzuräumen, geeignete Patienten direkt in eine Praxis zur fachärztlichen Versorgung zu transportieren. Fragstellung Quantifizierung von Patien...
Dotzauer, Robert Böhm, Katharina Brandt, Maximilian Peter Sparwasser, Peter Haack, Maximilian Frees, Sebastian Karl Kamal, Mohamed Mostafa Mager, René Jäger, Wolfgang Höfner, Thomas
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World journal of urology
While the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic captures healthcare resources worldwide, data on the impact of prioritization strategies in urology during pandemic are absent. We aimed to quantitatively assess the global change in surgical and oncological clinical practice in the early COVID-19 pandemic. In this cross-sectional observational...
Salman, Omar H Taha, Zahraa Alsabah, Muntadher Q Hussein, Yaseein S Mohammed, Ahmed S Aal-Nouman, Mohammed
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Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
With the remarkable increasing in the numbers of patients, the triaging and prioritizing patients into multi-emergency level is required to accommodate all the patients, save more lives, and manage the medical resources effectively. Triaging and prioritizing patients becomes particularly challenging especially for the patients who are far from hosp...
Restellini, Aurélio Kherad, Omar Kaiser, Stefan
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BMC Psychiatry
Background Inpatient treatment is not the most beneficial treatment setting for many patients with psychiatric disorders and overcrowding is a recurrent problem for psychiatric hospitals. Therefore, it is important to develop strategies to limit avoidable inpatient treatment. This study sought to evaluate the impact of an emergency hotline that was...
Mediavilla, Roberto Fernández-Jiménez, Eduardo Martínez-Alés, Gonzalo Moreno-Küstner, Berta Martínez-Morata, Irene Jaramillo, Fabiola Morán-Sánchez, Inés Minué, Sergio Torres-Cantero, Alberto Alvarado, Rubén
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Journal of Affective Disorders
Background During the initial COVID-19 outbreak, organizational changes were required to ensure adequate staffing in healthcare facilities. The extent to which organizational changes impacted the mental wellbeing of healthcare workers (HCWs) remains unexplored. Here we analyzed the association between three work-related stressors (reported access t...
Morrill, James Qirko, Klajdi Kelly, Jacob Ambrosy, Andrew Toro, Botros Smith, Ted Wysham, Nicholas Fudim, Marat Swaminathan, Sumanth
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Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research
Abstract Inadequate at-home management and self-awareness of heart failure (HF) exacerbations are known to be leading causes of the greater than 1 million estimated HF-related hospitalizations in the USA alone. Most current at-home HF management protocols include paper guidelines or exploratory health applications that lack rigor and validation at ...
