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What this service does, if I'm reading this right, is bypass the stage where you talk to a triage nurse - you're triaged based on what you report is wrong with
by JimmyL 17y ago
What this service does, if I'm reading this right, is bypass the stage where you talk to a triage nurse - you're triaged based on what you report is wrong with you, as opposed to what a nurse sees is wrong with you.
Do you have any mechanisms in place for two-way communication between the hospital and the people booking appointments? Specifically, I'm thinking about situations where a series of individually minor symptoms may collectively indicate something major is going on, but that a layman wouldn't know.
Like let's say that I go on your site and see that I can get an appointment at an ER in three hours, so I book that because I'm feeling slightly off. My symptom description seems innocuous enough - went for a walk in the countryside, right arm is tingling a bit, small red bump on my leg, etc. - but to someone trained in medicine they indicate that I've been poisoned by some sort of tick, and I need treatment ASAP, as opposed to in three hours. Is there a way for the nurse who processes this reservation into the hospital to call me and say "screw the booking, get here now!"?
- tkiley 17y agoYes, we do have the capacity to reprioritize patients based on symptoms. Patients who reserve a treatment time online are responsible for their own health until they arrive at the ED, but we do give the ED caregivers the capacity to communicate with the patient early on if they deem it prudent; this feature is generally used in the sort of situations you describe, where the patient's condition may be more serious than he or she realizes.