BACKGROUND: In Sweden with about 10 million inhabitants, there are about one million primary ambulance missions every year. Among them, around 10% are assessed by Emergency Medical Service (EMS) clinicians with the primary symptom of dyspnoea. The ri...
BACKGROUND: Hospitals use triage systems to prioritize the needs of patients within available resources. Misclassification of a patient can lead to either adverse outcomes in a patient who did not receive appropriate care in the case of undertriage o...
World journal of emergency surgery : WJES
Dec 23, 2024
BACKGROUND: Acute abdominal pain (AAP) constitutes 5-10% of all emergency department (ED) visits, with appendicitis being a prevalent AAP etiology often necessitating surgical intervention. The variability in AAP symptoms and causes, combined with th...
The American journal of emergency medicine
Dec 19, 2024
BACKGROUND: The number of emergency department (ED) visits has been on steady increase globally. Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, including Large Language Model (LLMs)-based generative AI models, have shown promise in improving triage accur...
BACKGROUND: Accurate triage is required for efficient allocation of resources and to decrease patients' length of stay. Triage decisions are often subjective and vary by provider, leading to patients being over-triaged or under-triaged. This study de...
AIMS: In routine diagnosis of lymphoma, initial non-specialist triage is carried out when the sample is biopsied to determine if referral to specialised haematopathology services is needed. This places a heavy burden on pathology services, causes del...
This scoping review explores the utilization of artificial intelligence in emergency nursing, assessing its impact, potential benefits, and the obstacles faced in its adoption. It covers the scope of AI from advanced triage protocols to continuous mo...
Australian critical care : official journal of the Confederation of Australian Critical Care Nurses
Dec 5, 2024
BACKGROUND: The timely identification and transfer of critically ill patients from the emergency department (ED) to the intensive care unit (ICU) is important for patient care and ED workflow practices.
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 5, 2024
BACKGROUND: Efficient triage in emergency departments (EDs) is critical for timely and appropriate care. Traditional triage systems primarily rely on structured data, but the increasing availability of unstructured data, such as clinical notes, prese...
OBJECTIVES: Increasing operational pressures on emergency departments (ED) make it imperative to quickly and accurately identify patients requiring urgent clinical intervention. The widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHR) makes rich fe...
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