https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A multinational collaboration at Eitri medical innovation center in Bergen, Norway, has used machine learning models to identify patient groups at risk of being mistreated. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-ai-patient-groups-emergency-room.html Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:31:39 EDT news680797893 In moments of acute pain, physical trauma and psychological distress, every minute spent in a hospital emergency department (ED) waiting room can seem like a lifetime. But what happens when the language barrier prevents triage staff from properly understanding patients' medical conditions? https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06-multilingual-chatbot-bilingual-patients-emergency.html Thu, 19 Jun 2025 05:12:04 EDT news669528721 Nurses who assess patients at emergency departments would like more training and say their decisions can be negatively impacted by the high pressures of their work. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-uk-survey-ae-triage-nurses.html Thu, 23 May 2024 15:28:14 EDT news635696890 Increased vigilance for high blood pressure and diffuse stomach pain. These are some of the characteristics of emergency care adapted for pregnant women and new mothers. The model, which could become clinical routine throughout Sweden, is described in a thesis at the University of Gothenburg. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-11-emergency-pregnant-women.html Tue, 14 Nov 2023 17:08:01 EST news619204077 Initial peer-to-peer e-consultations cost less than reflexive ambulance transfer in most situations for pediatric orthopedic trauma patients, according to a study published online Nov. 3 in the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-11-peer-to-peer-e-consults-money-pediatric-trauma.html Tue, 14 Nov 2023 13:50:01 EST news619192081 GPT-4 conversational artificial intelligence (AI) has the ability to diagnose and triage health conditions comparable to that provided by board-certified physicians, and its performance does not vary by patient race and ethnicity. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-11-ai-accurately-triage-health-conditions.html Thu, 09 Nov 2023 10:30:23 EST news618748220 Mistriage of non-White patients in the emergency department appears to be common, according to a study published online Oct. 12 in JAMA Network Open. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-10-non-white-patients-assigned-severe-triage.html Mon, 16 Oct 2023 15:50:01 EDT news616688760 A machine learning model has been proven effective as a decision-support tool for dispatchers of Emergency Medical Services (EMS), resulting in improved triage quality and ambulance utilization, according to a study done in Singapore. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-machine-emergency-triage.html Fri, 24 Mar 2023 09:49:03 EDT news598870141 In health care, triage involves categorizing patients by urgency levels so that the most urgent patients are prioritized to receive care. When patients are assigned a less urgent category than they really need, it is considered undertriage—and can have fatal consequences. Now, researchers from Japan have developed a computer-based method for predicting undertriage in a phone-based triage system. Their findings were published this month in Annals of Medicine and may improve over-the-phone triage outcomes worldwide. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-11-over-the-phone-health-artificial-intelligence.html Mon, 07 Nov 2022 10:00:03 EST news587037601 Implementing severity-based field triage leads to faster treatment and less disability for stroke patients. The research presented today at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery's (SNIS) 19th Annual Meeting, and now published online in the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery, shows that states that use field-based stroke severity triage as part of their Emergency Medical Systems (EMS) transport protocols give severe stroke patients more rapid access to specially trained neuroendovascular care teams and lifesaving thrombectomy. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-07-triaging-patients-comprehensive-centers-treatment.html Wed, 27 Jul 2022 13:40:02 EDT news578144787 Re-triaging endoscopies to make more urgent cases the priority during Melbourne's COVID-19 lockdowns led to higher cancer detection, according to research published today by the Medical Journal of Australia. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-gi-cancer-higher-lockdown-cancers.html Mon, 06 Jun 2022 09:59:03 EDT news573728342 An automated, online triage tool developed by Penn Medicine categorized nearly every one of the patients who used it into a safe severity level, a new study shows. Published today in Applied Clinical Informatics, the study analyzing the COVID-19 Triage Tool found that just six patients of the 782 analyzed had symptoms that were more severe than what the system assessed. But even in those cases, clinicians working alongside the system were able to upgrade the patients' assessment to the proper level of severity and attention. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-11-online-tool-effective-triaging-covid-.html Fri, 05 Nov 2021 11:14:46 EDT news555329681 Around the world, the coronavirus pandemic has put unprecedented strain on intensive care resources. In some places, including parts of Italy, the United States, Canada, and the Asia-Pacific, ICUs have been overwhelmed. Reports from Italy found doctors were "weeping in the hospital hallways because of the choices they were going to have to make." https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-covid-hospitalisations-patients-prioritised-icu.html Wed, 27 Oct 2021 08:07:56 EDT news554540873 A warning has been issued that Australian health workers face legal risks if they make triage decisions during a disaster—and the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the problem sharply into focus. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-05-triage-health-workers.html Mon, 24 May 2021 09:50:02 EDT news541066990 An international expert group led by Mathias Wirth, professor of systematic theology and ethics at the University of Bern, has developed recommendations for avoiding triage of COVID-19 patients in extreme situations. The recommendations should support medical personnel in difficult decisions during a second wave of the infection and ensure better patient care. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-ethical-triage-covid-patients.html Thu, 16 Jul 2020 10:33:48 EDT news514114421 How do we decide which patients with COVID-19 should get priority for lifesaving ventilators and ICU beds? Writing in the July issue of Medical Care, a prominent bioethicist argues that COVID-19 triage strategies should focus on saving lives, rather than prioritizing life-years saved. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-covid-triage-decisions-life-years-bioethicist.html Thu, 11 Jun 2020 12:50:01 EDT news511098482 Disability rights advocates are concerned that crisis triage protocols aimed at allocating scarce health care resources to save the most lives could be biased against people with disabilities. These concerns have prompted an investigation by the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services and appeals to Congress to prohibit crisis triage based on "anticipated or demonstrated resource-intensity needs, the relative survival probabilities of patients deemed likely to benefit from medical treatment, and assessments of pre- or post-treatment quality of life." https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-05-covid-crisis-triageoptimizing-health-outcomes.html Tue, 19 May 2020 16:08:33 EDT news509123308 Across Canada, the coronavirus pandemic is increasing the demand for already scarce critical care resources. In the coming weeks, there is a very real chance that there won't be enough ventilators and critical care beds for everyone who needs them. Difficult decisions will have to be made about who gets what. Sick individuals who might survive if put on a ventilator may be denied access to one, or even removed from one they were already on, in order to save someone else. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-04-coronavirus-hard-choices-ventilator-shortages.html Tue, 14 Apr 2020 10:30:02 EDT news506075787 Tuberculosis (TB) is the number one infectious disease killer worldwide. Particularly in hard-to-reach populations, diagnosis and treatment of TB remains very challenging. In high-burden areas, one third of patients are never diagnosed. To find, diagnose and treat these patients, several countries have adopted active TB case finding campaigns. During such campaigns, people are asked about symptoms suggestive of TB and, if positive, will be tested with a molecular sputum test, the Xpert MTB/RIF. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-12-tuberculosis-screening-remote-areas.html Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:52:32 EST news494513550 Providing early, appropriate antibiotic treatment for patients with sepsis—a serious complication of infection that can lead to organ failure and death—is crucial for their survival. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-05-er-triage-scores-antibiotics-delivery.html Wed, 22 May 2019 10:36:47 EDT news477740198 Although there is good news about smoking—only 14 percent of Americans smoke, the lowest number ever, according to a 2017 National Health Interview Survey—challenges remain. In a given year, more than 40 percent of smokers make no attempt to quit. For those who do, it can take many tries—estimates vary from six to 30—before they succeed, if they ever do. If more smokers are to succeed in staying quit, a better understanding of the factors that hinder them from meeting smoking cessation milestones is needed. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-11-cessation-fatigue-smokers-relapse.html Tue, 20 Nov 2018 02:13:36 EST news461902407 (HealthDay)—Current practice is not cost-effective compared with the Air Medical Prehospital Triage (AMPT) score for trauma patients, and the field triage system undertriage rate for patients with severe injuries exceeds 20 percent, according to two studies published online Nov. 1 in JAMA Surgery. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-11-current-cost-effective-air-medical-triage.html Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:10:02 EDT news428942461 One change to field triage guidelines for emergency medical services (EMS) responding to older adults with head trauma could make a "clinically important improvement over usual care," according to a study and accompanying editorial published earlier this month in Annals of Emergency Medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-03-medication-history-patients-blood-thinners.html Thu, 30 Mar 2017 10:30:25 EDT news410088616 Capita Healthcare Decisions and global knowledge provider, BMJ have agreed an exclusive partnership to combine clinical decision support tool, BMJ Best Practice, with Capita's internationally renowned clinical decision support software and triage solutions. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-06-capita-exclusive-partnership-bmj-patient.html Thu, 02 Jun 2016 10:39:17 EDT news384082749 A Victorian study has revealed inconsistent accuracy with emergency department triaging of low- to moderate-urgency presentations involving children. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-08-emergency-department-triage-children.html Fri, 14 Aug 2015 06:40:01 EDT news358752640 (HealthDay)—Most spine surgeons are interested in a nonphysician clinician (NPC) model of care for screening of low back or low back-related leg pain for patients referred for a surgical assessment, according to a study published in the April 1 issue of Spine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-surgeons-nonphysician-screens-pain.html Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:55:01 EDT news284990084 (HealthDay)—Web-based learning is effective at standardizing training for triage skills of registered nurses (RNs), according to a review published in the January issue of the Journal of Emergency Nursing. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-web-nurses-triage-skills.html Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:00:01 EST news277660157 (HealthDay) -- Real-time emergency room triage decisions by paramedics agree with the triage decisions of emergency residents about half the time, according to a study published in the July issue of the Journal of Emergency Nursing. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-triage-decisions-differ-paramedics-physicians.html Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:50:01 EDT news261419066 Children with moderate or severe asthma attacks who are treated with systemic corticosteroids during the first 75 minutes of triage in the Emergency Department (ED) were 16% less likely to be admitted to hospital. This highlights the importance of adopting a strategy to rapidly identify and begin treating children with moderate or severe asthma attacks directly after triage, according to a team of investigators working at the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center (UHC), the University of Montreal, McGill University and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI MUHC). https://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-hospital-admissions-asthmatics.html Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:02:34 EDT news252756118 (Medical Xpress) -- More than half of children admitted to an urban Florida pediatric emergency department had elevated blood pressure, according to a study published in the journal Pediatric Emergency Care. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-high-blood-pressure-hidden-health.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:10:01 EST news242027694