By capturing clinical acuity at triage, the ESI can be used as a surrogate marker to evaluate, at scale, whether LLMs can correctly assess the severity of a patient’s condition on presentation ...

What scales can healthcare professionals use to measure the severity of diabetic retinopathy? Read on to learn more about the DRSS, such as how it works and how to interpret it.

The ESI has been game-changing because it empowers EDs with a rationale to form dedicated triage teams and create staging areas and adaptive operations. In my trauma center several years ago, we ...

The Rheumatoid Arthritis Severity Scale was first developed in the early 2000s to help doctors measure RA disease activity. Learn more.

Different initial triage systems have been proposed including the Manchester triage system (MTS), the Australasian Triage Scale (ATS), the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) and the Emergency ...

ESI was created in 1998 to give nurses a triage resource to assist them with determining patient acuity based on their presentation and the expected level of care they will require.

For example, a study published last September found that non-white patients received less urgent ESI triage scores than white patients, while another study from Boston University found that Black and ...

The Respiratory Infection Intensity and Impact Questionnaire (RiiQ) Symptoms Scale demonstrated logical patterns of upper and lower respiratory symptoms among participants.