The Copenhagen Triage Algorithm
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Triage
- Sponsor
- Herlev Hospital
- Enrollment
- 50000
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- All cause mortality
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 9 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Crowding in the emergency department (ED) is a well documented problem putting patients at risk of adverse outcomes. To combat this, most ED's use some form of triage. In the last two decades systematic triage or process triage has become the norm in most countries but this approach is supported by limited evidence. Our aim is to develop a faster triage model of only a few vital parameters, based on a data from a large cohort of unselected ED patients and evaluate if such a model combined with a clinical assessment by the ED nurse is inferior to existing triage models in a prospective cluster-randomized trial
Investigators
Rasmus Bo Hasselbalch
Medical student
Herlev Hospital
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Patients presenting acutely to the Acute ward/Emergency department in two hospitals in the Capital of Denmark
Exclusion Criteria
- •Patients presenting in Pediatric, Gynecological or Obstetric units
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
All cause mortality
Time Frame: 30 days
Time frame starts at the beginning of the index admission, defined as first admission in the study period. Patients will be followed using central registers.
Secondary Outcomes
- Number of patients with an admission to the intensive care unit(30 days)
- Length of stay during admission(30 days)
- Waiting time for treatment(8 hours)
- Number of readmissions(30 and 90 days)
- All cause mortality(90 days)