Those inappropriately placed in a less severe pain category waited nearly three times as long for their first pain meds Some patients left after nearly six hours without treatment, and none got timely ...

A major Melbourne hospital has been accused of discrimination for fast-tracking care for Indigenous patients over that of ...

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 ...

Telemedicine is growing at a rapid pace fueled by faster Internet connections, the ubiquity of smartphones and personal devices, and new software platforms that connect patients with providers more ...

Patients in sickle cell crisis can wait in agony for hours if inappropriately triaged by an ER Those inappropriately placed in a less severe pain category waited nearly three times as long for their ...

Worse, two-thirds of patients received this inaccurate triage of their pain ... Four patients wound up leaving the ER without receiving any pain meds, after a median wait of 349 minutes — nearly six ...