The Use and Structure of Emergency Nurses' Triage Narrative Data: Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emergency departments use triage to ensure that patients with the highest level of acuity receive care quickly and safely. Triage is typically a nursing process that is documented as structured and unstructured (free text) data. Free-text triage narratives have been studied for specific conditions but never reviewed in a comprehensive manner.

Objective

The objective of this paper was to identify and map the academic literature that examines triage narratives. The paper described the types of research conducted, identified gaps in the research, and determined where additional review may be warranted.

Methods

We conducted a scoping review of unstructured triage narratives. We mapped the literature, described the use of triage narrative data, examined the info

SUBMITTER: Picard C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9883744 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature