FRENCH versus ESI: comparison between two nurse triage emergency scales with referent scenarios.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Acute triage is needed to prioritize care and achieve optimal resource allocation in busy emergency departments. The main objective is to compare the FRench Emergency Nurse Classification in Hospital scale (FRENCH) to the American scale Emergency Severity Index (ESI). Secondary objectives are to compare for each scale the over and under-triage, the triage matching to the gold standard and the inter-individual sorting reproducibility between the nurses.

Methods

This is a prospective observational study conducting among the nursing staffs and nursing students, selected from Caen University College Hospital and Lisieux Hospital Center emergency departments between two months. Each group individually rank 60 referent clinical cases composed by scales designers. An ass

SUBMITTER: Aubrion A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9743579 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature