Objective: To validate use of the Manchester triage system in paediatric emergency care. Design: Prospective observational study. Setting: Emergency departments of a university hospital and a teaching ...

Background: Patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) currently face inacceptable delays in initial treatment, and long, costly hospital stays due to suboptimal initial triage and ...

Care home staff across England and Northern Ireland are set to benefit from a new patient assessment tool, which has proven to help avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and ambulance call outs. The ...

If you’ve needed emergency care in the last few years, you probably encountered this situation: Soon after entering the emergency department, you were asked to go to a triage area in the waiting room ...