Emergency nurses' triage narrative data, their uses and structure: a scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The first clinical interaction most patients have in the emergency department occurs during triage. An unstructured narrative is generated during triage and is the first source of in-hospital documentation. These narratives capture the patient's reported reason for the visit and the initial assessment and offer significantly more nuanced descriptions of the patient's complaints than fixed field data. Previous research demonstrated these data are useful for predicting important clinical outcomes. Previous reviews examined these narratives in combination or isolation with other free-text sources, but used restricted searches and are becoming outdated. Furthermore, there are no reviews focused solely on nurses' (the primary collectors of these data) narratives.

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SUBMITTER: Picard CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9014040 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature