Triage of Abdominal Pain in the Emergency Department

• Conditions: Abdominal Pain

• Registration Number: NCT02064127
• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Geneva

Brief Summary

The investigators aim to evaluate in a retrospective study the performance of the Swiss Emergency Triage Scale to identify at the door of the Emergency Department patients requiring emergent intervention.

Detailed Description

All patients are triaged at the door of our Emergency Department using the Swiss Emergency Triage Scale. Patients with abdominal pain may be triaged in two different emergency levels (level 2: medical evaluation within 20 minutes, level 3: medical evaluation within 2 hours). These levels are determined using a set of specific criteria.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the validity of these specific criteria in order to identify promptly patients with abdominal pain the will require an emergent intervention during their stay in the Emergency Department.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2013-12-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-02-13
• Study First Posted: 2014-02-17
• Study Start: 2014-03
• Status Verified: 2017-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-07-26
• Last Update Posted: 2017-07-27
• Primary Completion: 2017-12
• Study Completion: 2017-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 4000

Inclusion Criteria

• >= 16 y
• abdominal pain as the main complaint

Exclusion Criteria

• none

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Emergency intervention	participants will be followed for the duration of hospital stay, an expected average of 2 weeks	Emergency intervention is a composite outcome of: emergency surgical intervention or radiological intervention or emergent endoscopy

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Time to medical evaluation	participants will be followed for the duration of emergency department stay, an expected average of 5 hours	We will evaluate the delay between triage evaluation and medical evaluation. We will compute the percentage of patients evaluated within timeframe accordingly to the Swiss Triage Emergency Scale

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Geneva University Hospitals; 🇨🇭 Geneva, Switzerland