Impact of a Triage Liaison Physician on the Time to First Medical Evaluation in the Emergency Departement

University Hospital, Geneva1 site in 1 country69,893 target enrollmentNovember 2016

ConditionsEmergencies Triage

Overview

Phase: Not Applicable
Intervention: Not specified
Conditions: Emergencies
Sponsor: University Hospital, Geneva
Enrollment: 69893
Locations: 1
Primary Endpoint: Proportion of patients evaluated within SETS objectives
Status: Completed
Last Updated: 8 years ago

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Overview

Brief Summary

Due to an increasing number of patients admitted in emergency departments, many patients cannot be evaluated immediately after their admission. The function of "triage liaison physician" was introduced in Spring 2015. The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of this new function on patients' flow in the ED.

Detailed Description

Geneva University Hospitals (GUH) emergency department (ED) admits more than 64000 patients every year. These patients are triaged using the Swiss Emergency Triage Scale (SETS), a 4-level triage scale. The SETS imposes time objectives until the first medical evaluation (20 minutes for SETS 2, 2 hours for SETS 3). In 2014, only 60% of level-2 and 63% of level-3 emergencies were evaluated within 20 and 120 minutes respectively. A triage liaison physician was introduced in Spring 2015 with the mission to help triage nurse in their decisions and to evaluate quickly the patients that cannot be immediately installed in an ED evaluation room. The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of the triage liaison physician on the times to first medical evaluation.

Registry

clinicaltrials.gov

Start Date

November 2016

End Date

June 2017

Last Updated

8 years ago

Study Type

Observational

Sex

All