Publications by authors named "Michelle Large"
Background Context: Ambulatory spine referral triage must be optimized to improve both quality of care and access to specialists.
Purpose: To evaluate cost savings in an existing model of telemedicine/electronic-triage for ambulatory spine referrals.
Study Design/setting: Retrospective review.
Background: Determining whether a patient has a time-critical medical condition requiring helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) transportation is a challenge with acute ischemic stroke (AIS). Although HEMS is largely accepted as improving outcomes in time-sensitive conditions, overtriage of patients ineligible for acute stroke therapies places patients and providers at unnecessary risk and wastes limited health care resources.
Objective: We sought to identify how accurate our triage system was at identifying high-yield EMS transfers.