Characteristics of a Pediatric Emergency Psychiatric Telephone Triage Service

Conclusions A dearth of information on pediatric crisis telephone triage services exists; thus, developing an evidence base is an important area for future work. This information assists not only in our understanding of which, why, and how many youths are diverted from the ED but allows us to extrapolate significant costs that have been saved because of the utilization of the triage service.
Source: Pediatric Emergency Care - Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research