The Swiss Emergency Triage Scale (SETS) in used for triage in emergency departments in Switzerland, France and Belgium. No validated triage scale is actually used by Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers. The objective of this project is to evaluate the reliability and performance of triage by EMS providers with the SETS.
The Swiss Emergency Triage Scale (SETS) in used for triage in emergency departments in Switzerland, France and Belgium. No validated triage scale is actually used by EMS providers. The objective of this project is to evaluate the reliability and performance of triage by EMS providers with the SETS. In order to perform this evaluation a cohort of 22 EMS providers will evaluate 28 standardized clinical scenarios using a computer simulator.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
23
A mobile triage system used by EMS providers will be evaluated using standardized clinical vignettes
ED of Geneva University Hospitals
Geneva, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland
Emergency level (1 to 4) accordingly to the SETS
Each participant will attribute an emergency level (1 to 4) to all clinical vignettes accordingly to SETS criteria. Reliability will be evaluated by computing inter-rater reliability using Kappa statistics.
Time frame: 1 day: all computeriez vignettes will be evaluated during a one-day session in November 2015.
Correct emergency triage level identification
Triage levels attributed by EMS providers will be compared with triage levels attributed by experts
Time frame: 1 day: all computeriez vignettes will be evaluated during a one-day session in November 2015.
Proper orientation
At the end of triage process, EMS providers have to decide in which hospitals the patients should be admitted. These orientations given by EMS providers will be compared with orientations attributed by experts
Time frame: 1 day: all computeriez vignettes will be evaluated during a one-day session in November 2015.
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