It is a well-documented fact that telehealth use exploded across the country in 2020, spurred by the Covid-19 pandemic. But several hurdles quickly emerged, including the question of how best to ...

One national study found that only 28% of ED surgical consults led to operative interventions. Similar trends are seen in ...

UCLA Health is creating telehealth-specific triage protocols to help providers determine when it is appropriate to deliver care to patients via a virtual approach, according to a Dec. 30 NEJM Catalyst ...

At the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, I shared my insights about how Emergency Department (ED) design could respond to the needs of the patients, families, and healthcare workers on the frontlines of ...

During the crush of the COVID-19 pandemic, overwhelmed doctors and nurses in some places have had to make agonizing decisions about which patients should receive scarce health care resources. However, ...

Most individuals living with sickle cell disease who presented to the emergency department with a pain crisis, known as ...

A new paper suggests that unconscious biases in the health care system may have influenced how individuals with intellectual disabilities were categorized in emergency triage protocols. When COVID-19 ...

Researchers in Israel have detailed the experience of one hospital's radiology department during the mass casualty incident ...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology Eliana Close contributed to the "ANZICS guiding principles for complex decision making ...

A look at the veterinary triage process, from rapid assessment of life-threatening conditions to stabilization and the ...