Triage of Abdominal Pain in the Emergency Department

Abdominal Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:

Evaluation of Triage Criteria for Abdominal Pain in the Emergency Department

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02064127
• Other study ID #: SU_2013_2
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: December 12, 2013
• Last updated: July 26, 2017
• Start date: March 2014
• Est. completion date: December 2017

Study information

• Verified date: July 2017
• Source: University Hospital, Geneva
• Contact: Olivier T Rutschmann, MD, MPH
• Phone: +41223728132
• Email: olivier.rutschmann[@]hcuge.ch
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The investigators aim to evaluate in a retrospective study the performance of the Swiss Emergency Triage Scale to identify at the door of the Emergency Department patients requiring emergent intervention.

Description:

All patients are triaged at the door of our Emergency Department using the Swiss Emergency Triage Scale. Patients with abdominal pain may be triaged in two different emergency levels (level 2: medical evaluation within 20 minutes, level 3: medical evaluation within 2 hours). These levels are determined using a set of specific criteria.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the validity of these specific criteria in order to identify promptly patients with abdominal pain the will require an emergent intervention during their stay in the Emergency Department.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 4000
• Est. completion date: December 2017
• Est. primary completion date: December 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 16 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• >= 16 y

• abdominal pain as the main complaint

Exclusion Criteria:

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Abdominal Pain
• Emergencies

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Switzerland	Geneva University Hospitals	Geneva

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University Hospital, Geneva

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Switzerland, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Emergency intervention	Emergency intervention is a composite outcome of: emergency surgical intervention or radiological intervention or emergent endoscopy	participants will be followed for the duration of hospital stay, an expected average of 2 weeks
Secondary	Time to medical evaluation	We will evaluate the delay between triage evaluation and medical evaluation. We will compute the percentage of patients evaluated within timeframe accordingly to the Swiss Triage Emergency Scale	participants will be followed for the duration of emergency department stay, an expected average of 5 hours