Validation of an Early Warning Score Based Triage System in the Emergency Department

Nurse Administered Early Warning Score System Can be Used for Emergency Department Triage

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01243021

Enrollment

300

Registered

2010-11-18

Start date

2009-04-30

Completion date

2009-09-30

Last updated

2010-11-18

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Conditions

Critical Illness

Brief summary

At Bispebjerg Hospital we have introduced an Early Warning Score based triage system , called Bispebjerg Early Warning Score (BEWS), in order to identify critically ill patient on arrival at the emergency department. The purpose of this study is to validate our triage system.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Red patient * Seen in our emergency department between 1. april 2009 and 30. september 2009

Exclusion criteria

* None

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Critical illness	48 hours	The investigators have defined a critically ill patient as a patient who dies within 48 hours of arrival at the emergency department or who is admitted to ICU within 48 hours of arrival at the emergency department

Countries

Denmark

Outcome results