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2. Emergency Severity Index - Wikipedia

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   The ESI levels are numbered one through five, with levels one and two indicating the greatest urgency based on patient acuity. However, levels 3, 4, and 5 are determined not by urgency, but by the number of resources expected to be used as determined by a licensed healthcare professional ( medic/nurse ) trained in triage processes. [ 4 ]

3. Triage - Wikipedia

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   All public hospitals in Singapore use the Patient Acuity Category Scale (PACS) to triage patient in Emergency Departement. PACS is a symptom-based differential diagnosis approach that triages patients according to their presenting complaints and objective assessments such as vital signs and Glasgow Coma Scale, allowing acute patients to be ...

4. E chart - Wikipedia

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   This is often desirable, for instance with very young children. This also allows use with patients not readily fluent in the alphabet – for example, in China. The chart contains rows of the letter "E" in various kinds of rotation. The patient is asked to state (usually by pointing) where the limbs of the E are pointing, "up, down, left or right."

5. Near visual acuity - Wikipedia

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   Near visual acuity or near vision is a measure of how clearly a person can see nearby small objects or letters.Visual acuity in general usually refers clarity of distance vision, and is measured using eye charts like Snellen chart, LogMAR chart etc. Near vision is usually measured and recorded using a printed hand-held card containing different sized paragraphs, words, letters or symbols.

6. Jaeger chart - Wikipedia

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   The Jaeger chart is an eye chart used in testing near visual acuity.It is a card on which paragraphs of text are printed, with the text sizes increasing from 0.37 mm to 2.5 mm. [1] This card is to be held by a patient at a fixed distance from the eye dependent on the J size being read.

7. Early warning score - Wikipedia

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   An early warning system (EWS), sometimes called a rapid response system or track-and-trigger chart, is a clinical tool used in healthcare to anticipate patient deterioration by measuring the cumulative variation in observations, most often being patient vital signs and level of consciousness. [1]

8. APACHE II - Wikipedia

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   APACHE II ("Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II") is a severity-of-disease classification system, [1] one of several ICU scoring systems.It is applied within 24 hours of admission of a patient to an intensive care unit (ICU): an integer score from 0 to 71 is computed based on several measurements; higher scores correspond to more severe disease and a higher risk of death.

9. Braden Scale for Predicting Pressure Ulcer Risk - Wikipedia

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   The Braden Scale for Predicting Pressure Ulcer Risk, is a tool that was developed in 1987 by Barbara Braden and Nancy Bergstrom. [1] The purpose of the scale is to help health professionals, especially nurses, assess a patient's risk of developing a pressure ulcer .