It is a well-documented fact that telehealth use exploded across the country in 2020, spurred by the Covid-19 pandemic. But several hurdles quickly emerged, including the question of how best to ...

UCLA Health is creating telehealth-specific triage protocols to help providers determine when it is appropriate to deliver care to patients via a virtual approach, according to a Dec. 30 NEJM Catalyst ...

At the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, I shared my insights about how Emergency Department (ED) design could respond to the needs of the patients, families, and healthcare workers on the frontlines of ...

During the crush of the COVID-19 pandemic, overwhelmed doctors and nurses in some places have had to make agonizing decisions about which patients should receive scarce health care resources. However, ...

A new paper suggests that unconscious biases in the health care system may have influenced how individuals with intellectual disabilities were categorized in emergency triage protocols. When COVID-19 ...

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) 19 th ...

“Pain is a significant burden in the day-to-day lives of those living with sickle cell disease, with VOC being the number one ...

Though intended to maximize patient safety, such consultations also reflect broader system challenges, including clinical uncertainty, medical-legal concerns, fragmented communication, and the absence ...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology Eliana Close contributed to the "ANZICS guiding principles for complex decision making ...