Abstract

Objectives & BackgroundTriage, the process of categorising patients based on clinical acuity, is a key principle in the effective management of a major incident (MI). Existing triage systems have so...

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  • We proposed that full-time providers in our singlehospital group should have similar prescribing practices and that transparency in individual physician prescribing would result in an opportunity for physicians to compare their practices

  • There are other external factors that were not controlled, transparency regarding the number of opioid prescriptions written by the ED physician group and a monthly departmental discussion resulted in a significant decrease in the number of opioids prescribed

  • The Modified Physiological Triage Tool (MPTT) outperformed all existing triage methods with a 44.7% absolute reduction in under-triage compared to existing United Kingdom civilian methods

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Free Open Access Meducation (FOAM) is a collection of interactive online medical education resources—free and accessible to students, residents, physicians and other learners. This novel approach to medical education has the potential to reach learners across the globe; the extent of its reach is still unknown. This study aims to describe the global distribution of FOAM users

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