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

Critical Illness Clinical Trial

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01243021
• Other study ID #: BBH98765
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 17, 2010
• Last updated: November 17, 2010
• Start date: April 2009
• Est. completion date: September 2009

Study information

• Verified date: November 2010
• Source: Bispebjerg Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Denmark: National Board of Health
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial 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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 300
• Est. completion date: September 2009
• Est. primary completion date: September 2009
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• "Red" patient

• Seen in our emergency department between 1. april 2009 and 30. september 2009

Exclusion Criteria:

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Retrospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Critical Illness

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Denmark	Bispebjerg Hospital	Copenhagen	Copenhagen NV

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Bispebjerg Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Denmark, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Critical illness	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	48 hours