Method and device for handling calls in a nurse call system

The present invention is related to a method for determining a priority level of a received call message in a nurse call system. The method comprises the steps of - receiving a call message made by a patient or by a nurse for the patient or by a device for monitoring the patient, - obtaining from a...

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Hauptverfasser: STUBBE, BRECHT, ONGENAE, FEMKE, DE TURCK, FILIP, DHAENE, TOM, ACKAERT, ANN, VERHOEVE, PIET
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Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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Zusammenfassung:The present invention is related to a method for determining a priority level of a received call message in a nurse call system. The method comprises the steps of - receiving a call message made by a patient or by a nurse for the patient or by a device for monitoring the patient, - obtaining from a knowledge management system context-related information on the patient, said context-related information on the patient containing at least probabilistic information related to a risk profile of the patient, - obtaining respective probabilities of the received call message belonging to various priority classes of a set of predefined priority classes, taking into account the context-related information on the patient, - assigning to the received call message one priority class of the set based on the computed probabilities for the various priority classes.