For the last few years, telehealth technology has targeted rural populations, including individuals who often skip regular checkups or lack the money or transportation needed to get prescription ...

Telephone triage has emerged as a pivotal component in modern primary care services, streamlining patient management and improving the allocation of healthcare resources. By enabling trained ...

Telephone triage — taking calls from individuals seeking diagnosis — is a staple of medical practice. It is an undertaking which is full of risk. A study of the accuracy of diagnosis during telephone ...

Demand for general practice appointments is rising rapidly, and in an attempt to deal with this, many practices have introduced systems of telephone triage. Patients are phoned by a doctor or nurse ...

WILLMAR -- Once a week Shawn Franklin takes her turn as one of the after-hours phone triage nurses for Affiliated Community Medical Centers. She has her cell phone and laptop, and a quiet place at ...

With ever-increasing workload GPs must use any tool available. My experience of a variety of methods of telephone triage, both in and out of hours, has convinced me that it really can work. The ...

Hundreds of GPs are asking patients to prove they need face-to-face appointments in a three-minute telephone call, before they see them. Our verdict We haven’t seen evidence that GPs are asking ...

If there is no way a practice can give patients timely appointments, then it makes sense to focus on offering safe telephone triage, to determine which patients need to be seen sooner, rather than ...