Volume : VI, Issue : XII, December - 2017

Triage in emergency department at RIMS

Anshu Jamaiyar

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 Triage  is the process of determining the priority of patients‘ treatments based on the severity of their condition. The earliest written record of the use of triage in emergency medicine, in a systematic sense, was in the early 1960s at Baltimore, USA.The emergency department is the crucial interface between the emergency medical services and the hospital.(1) As reflected in the year–on–year increases in patient numbers, however, emergency departments are increasingly being selected as the route of primary access to the healthcare systemThe volume of admissions to a given emergency department cannot be predicted with any great accuracy, only a certain proportion of the patients have life– endangering or medically urgent conditions ( 3), and not all those admitted can be treated immediately or simultaneously.. To accurately group ED patients based on their medical needs, a classification system – triage – has been developed. Which patients need to be treated immediately, and which ones can wait? . The aim of this paper is to provide a critical review of the literature pertaining to emergency department triage in order to inform the direction for future research.

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ANSHU JAMAIYAR, Triage in emergency department at RIMS, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-6 | Issue-12 | December-2017

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