Injuries and sicknesses vary when people show up to an ER for medical care, so doctors must decide, depending on the severity ...

An experimental emergency room triage program that coordinated care with multiple departments at a Chicago hospital cut wait times of critically ill patients by more than two hours. The study in the ...

Family shares frustration with Children's Hospital triage process after daughter's condition worsened in ER wait room. Calls ...

Anyone who is not in the medical profession and who has wandered into an emergency room may be baffled by the hours of waiting and the mysterious process by which nurses and doctors move patients ...

Four years into a D.C. program in which nurses answer some 911 calls, officials say it's making a difference and saving thousands of people unnecessary trips to the emergency room. News4 got an inside ...

After severe abdominal pain sent her to the ER, a Canadian woman faced a 15-hour wait, as physicians warn of worsening ...

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An emergency room triage tent has been set up in the Spartanburg Regional Medical Center parking lot off church street to help staff there deal with the surge in COVID-19 cases. As the number of ...

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