Triage of Children at the Emergency Department: Manchester Triage System or Pediatric Early Warning Score?
NCT ID: NCT02094404
Last Updated: 2015-05-29
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
727 participants
OBSERVATIONAL
2013-12-31
2014-03-31
Brief Summary
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The investigators hypothesize that children can be triaged safely with the PEWS.
If it is safe, there will be one triage system again at the ED. Another advantage will be more continuity in assessing the condition of patients who are admitted to the hospital.
Detailed Description
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The MTS is used for children at EDs by many hospitals worldwide, also at the ED of the Isala, the Netherlands. This triage system has been proven safe, but many patients are classified as too urgent. This is a disadvantage because accurate triage is needed to provide access for immediate ill patients and for sufficient flow at the ED.
Currently, adult patients at the ED of the Isala are classified by the early warning score. This is a score based on vital signs and it is easily calculated. It originally has been developed to determine clinical deterioration. For children normal values are different for each age. Therefore there has been developed the PEWS, which is now only used to evaluate clinical patients. Ideally for the continuity in this hospital, there would be one system which can be used for triage as well as for clinical patients. The investigators hypothesize that the PEWS is a safe alternative for the triage of children at the ED.
Design: A form will be attached on the file of all children presenting at the ED, for recording data. These forms will be collected afterwards. The emergency department nurses will record the vital signs, which the investigators need to calculate the PEWS as well as the urgency determined by the MTS for each patient. The expert opinion will also be recorded. This is de urgency according to the doctor who has seen the patient, maximal acceptable door-to-doctor time: very urgent (immediate), urgent (\<15minutes) or normal (\<1hour). At the end of the consultation at the ED, the reference standard will be determined for each patient independent of MTS urgency or PEWS, with data available from the patient file. (1) For secondary outcome measures may or may not hospital admission or intensive care admission will be recorded.
No interventions are made and this study is of no influence on the treatment of the patients.
Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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PROSPECTIVE
Study Groups
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Children at the ED<18yr
No interventions assigned to this group
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
18 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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E.P. de Groot
OTHER
Responsible Party
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E.P. de Groot
MD
Principal Investigators
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E.P de Groot, MD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Isala
Locations
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Isala
Zwolle, Overijssel, Netherlands
Countries
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References
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van Veen M, Steyerberg EW, Ruige M, van Meurs AH, Roukema J, van der Lei J, Moll HA. Manchester triage system in paediatric emergency care: prospective observational study. BMJ. 2008 Sep 22;337:a1501. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a1501.
Other Identifiers
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KSEH13
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id