Nurse Administered Early Warning Score System Can be Used for Emergency Department Triage

Bispebjerg Hospital1 site in 1 country300 target enrollmentApril 2009

ConditionsCritical Illness

Overview

Phase: Not Applicable
Intervention: Not specified
Conditions: Critical Illness
Sponsor: Bispebjerg Hospital
Enrollment: 300
Locations: 1
Primary Endpoint: Critical illness
Status: Completed
Last Updated: 15 years ago

Overview Investigators Eligibility Criteria Outcomes Sites Similar Trials

Overview

Brief Summary

At Bispebjerg Hospital we have introduced an Early Warning Score based triage system , called Bispebjerg Early Warning Score (BEWS), in order to identify critically ill patient on arrival at the emergency department. The purpose of this study is to validate our triage system.

Registry

clinicaltrials.gov

Start Date

April 2009

End Date

September 2009

Last Updated

15 years ago

Study Type

Observational

Sex

All

Investigators

Sponsor

Bispebjerg Hospital

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

•"Red" patient
•Seen in our emergency department between
•april 2009 and
•september 2009

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Critical illness

Time Frame: 48 hours

The investigators have defined a critically ill patient as a patient who dies within 48 hours of arrival at the emergency department or who is admitted to ICU within 48 hours of arrival at the emergency department