Background The annual births in our hospital (a regional perinatal centre for the southeastern coastal region) had increased ...

Like many health systems, Allentown, Pennsylvania-based Lehigh Valley Health Network had been facing the problem of long wait times in its emergency departments. To confront the problem, Lehigh Valley ...

Triage is a system that helps decide who gets emergency medical care first. Triage systems often use color codes to show how ...

When evaluating patients presenting to an emergency department (ED), a quick, visual assessment ("eyeball triage") is better than a formal triage when it comes to predicting mortality, a study has ...