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Administrative data

NCT number NCT02980159
Other study ID # CCER 2016-00179
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received November 24, 2016
Last updated July 26, 2017
Start date November 2016
Est. completion date June 2017

Study information

Verified date July 2017
Source University Hospital, Geneva
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Due to an increasing number of patients admitted in emergency departments, many patients cannot be evaluated immediately after their admission. The function of "triage liaison physician" was introduced in Spring 2015. The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of this new function on patients' flow in the ED.


Description:

Geneva University Hospitals (GUH) emergency department (ED) admits more than 64000 patients every year. These patients are triaged using the Swiss Emergency Triage Scale (SETS), a 4-level triage scale. The SETS imposes time objectives until the first medical evaluation (20 minutes for SETS 2, 2 hours for SETS 3). In 2014, only 60% of level-2 and 63% of level-3 emergencies were evaluated within 20 and 120 minutes respectively.

A triage liaison physician was introduced in Spring 2015 with the mission to help triage nurse in their decisions and to evaluate quickly the patients that cannot be immediately installed in an ED evaluation room.

The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of the triage liaison physician on the times to first medical evaluation.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 69893
Est. completion date June 2017
Est. primary completion date June 2017
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 16 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:

- >= 16 y

- admitted in GUH ED

Exclusion Criteria:

- patients triaged to outpatient clinics

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Other:
Triage liaison physician
A triage liaison physician is present from 7:30 am to 10:30 pm, Monday to Friday, with the mission to evaluate quickly patients who cannot be immediately installed in an ED room

Locations

Country Name City State
Switzerland Geneva University Hospitals, ED 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 Proportion of patients evaluated within SETS objectives Proportion of patients evaluated within time objective as defined by SETS standards. Within 120 minutes after ED triage
Secondary Time to first medical contact Time elapsed between triage and first medical evaluation Within 24 hours after ED triage
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