Accuracy of telephone triage in patients suspected of transient ischaemic attack or stroke: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Netherlands Triage Standard (NTS) is a widely used decision support tool for telephone triage at Dutch out-of-hours primary care services (OHS-PC), which, however, has never been validated against clinical outcomes. We aimed to determine the accuracy of the NTS urgency allocation for patients with neurological symptoms suggestive of a transient ischaemic attack (TIA) or stroke, with the clinical outcomes TIA, stroke, and other (neurologic) life-threatening events (LTEs) as the reference.

Method

A cross-sectional study of telephone triage recordings of patients with neurological symptoms calling the OHS-PC between 2014 and 2016.The allocated NTS urgencies were derived from the electronic medical records of the OHS-PC. The clinical outcomes were retrieved from t

SUBMITTER: Erkelens DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7719259 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature