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Best Practices for Managing High Call Volumes in Triage

A clinician uses a tablet to check medical intake and secure messages. Icons representing a patient file hover above the tablet.

How Secure Messaging Enhances Medical Answering Services

AI in RPM concept: a humanoid robot uses a blood pressure cuff on a woman's arm.

How AI Could Enhance Remote Patient Monitoring

A nurse uses triage software on a computer.

Why Every Medical Practice Needs Triage Software

Men's Health Awareness Month is represented by a blue ribbon and a stethoscope.

Men’s Health Awareness Month: Key Issues, and How Nurse Triage Can Help

A worried elderly man calls a triage line to talk about his ailing wife's symptoms.

Why Nurse Triage Is Essential for Patient Safety

Demographics of Patients with Urgent Symptoms in a Nurse Triage Center

We studied data from 230,000 telephone calls from our nurse triage call center from January-
October 2020. Nurses ensured that all callers received standardized, high-quality care by using
guided symptom-based protocols written by Doctors Schmitt and Thompson. During each call
we collected information about the patient’s demographics, the triage protocol used by the nurse,
and the patient’s disposition. Patients were also asked whether or not they were planning to go to
the emergency room (ER) prior to calling a nurse. In this article we focus on the callers that
ended up in the ER and their demographics.

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Nurse Triage Explains COVID-19 Vaccine Protocols

The COVID-19 vaccine is here, and a new virus with a new vaccine means new protocols for triage nurses. Triage nurses play an important role in times like these; many patients have questions about the vaccine and if what they are feeling after receiving it is normal. A couple of COVID-19 vaccines require two shots spread apart to be effective, though there are new vaccines which only requires one. In this article, we’ll tell you about the new triage COVID-19 vaccine Schmitt-Thompson vaccine protocols, and what kind of outcomes to expect.

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