Pediatric Emergency Care: Use of Emergency Telemedicine Physicians for Telephone Triage Disposition of Pediatric Patients
This study evaluated pediatric telephone calls to the May Clinic Health System nurse triage line that were directed to the emergency department telemedicine physician from January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2019. There were 8559 nurse line calls regarding pediatric patients, 882 of which were referred to the telemedicine physician. Among these 97.5% of patients were discharged home. The findings suggest that telemedicine physicians can safely triage care recommendations for pediatric patients.