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CompletedNCT03926234

Effectiveness of a Four-level Chinese Emergency Triage Scale in Mainland China

The Reliability and Validity of a Four-level Chinese Emergency Triage Scale in Mainland China

Status
Completed
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
30,687 (actual)
Sponsor
Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
14 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

Inter-rater reliability between experts and triage nurses was assessed in 484 emergency patients. The criterion-related validity was evaluated in other 30687 emergency patients, based on emergency department (ED) mortality, the length of stay in ED, the number of discharge, and hospitalization (intensive care/general ward).

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
OTHERFour-level Chinese Emergency triage scalea four-level category system, i.e. life-threatening (Level I), emergent (Level II), urgent (Level III) and semi-urgent (Level IV) . This system contains critical indicators (cardiac arrest, shock, and apnea), high risk indicators (ACS and DKA), single objective indicators (SBP, RR, HR, and SpO2) and MEWS (synthesis indicator). According to patients' health care problems, patients are rated by nurses into one of the four mentioned levels.

Timeline

Start date
2018-01-01
Primary completion
2019-12-31
Completion
2020-12-30
First posted
2019-04-24
Last updated
2021-06-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China

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