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CompletedNCT02698319

The Copenhagen Triage Algorithm

Status
Completed
Phase
N/A
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
50,000 (actual)
Sponsor
Herlev Hospital · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
16 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

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

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
BEHAVIORALCopenhagen Triage AlgorithmThe Copenhagen Triage Algorithm is a new triage method for faster triage in the ED

Timeline

Start date
2015-04-01
Primary completion
2016-04-01
Completion
2016-06-01
First posted
2016-03-03
Last updated
2016-08-16

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Denmark

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02698319. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.