Evaluation of telephone triage among chest pain patients in out-of-hours primary care in the Netherlands (TRACE).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Telephone triage is fully integrated in Dutch out-of-hours primary care (OOH-PC). Patients presenting with chest pain are initially assessed according to a standardized protocol ("Netherlands Triage Standard" [NTS]). Nevertheless, little is known about its (diagnostic) performance, nor on the impact of subsequent clinical judgements made by triage assistants and general practitioners (GPs).

Objective

To evaluate the performance of the current NTS chest pain protocol.

Methods

Observational, retrospective cohort study of adult patients with chest pain who contacted a regional OOH-PC facility in the Netherlands, in 2017. The clinical outcome measure involved the occurrence of a "major event," which is a composite of all-cause mortality and urgent cardiovascula

SUBMITTER: Manten A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9909662 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature