Emergency Medical Services, Triage
Conditions
Brief summary
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.
Detailed description
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.
Interventions
DEVICEMobile triage system
A mobile triage system used by EMS providers will be evaluated using standardized clinical vignettes
Sponsors
University Hospital, Geneva
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* All EMS providers employed by a private ambulance company in the State of Geneva, Switzerland
Exclusion criteria
* Not giving informed consent
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Emergency level (1 to 4) accordingly to the SETS | 1 day: all computeriez vignettes will be evaluated during a one-day session in November 2015. | 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. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Correct emergency triage level identification | 1 day: all computeriez vignettes will be evaluated during a one-day session in November 2015. | Triage levels attributed by EMS providers will be compared with triage levels attributed by experts |
| Proper orientation | 1 day: all computeriez vignettes will be evaluated during a one-day session in November 2015. | 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 |
Countries
Switzerland
Outcome results
None listed