Reliability and performance of the Swiss Emergency Triage Scale used by paramedics

Olivier Grosgurin,Angèle Gayet-Ageron,Laurent Suppan,J. Simon,Adolfo Villar,Véronique Trombert,Christophe Alberic Marti,François P. Sarasin,Olivier Thierry Rutschmann

Reliability and performance of the Swiss Emergency Triage Scale used by paramedics

2017

Olivier Grosgurin
Angèle Gayet-Ageron
Laurent Suppan
J. Simon
Adolfo Villar
Véronique Trombert
Christophe Alberic Marti
François P. Sarasin
Olivier Thierry Rutschmann

Objectives No general emergency department triage scale has been evaluated for prehospital triage. The objective of this study was to evaluate the reliability and the performance of the Swiss Emergency Triage Scale (SETS) used by paramedics to determine the emergency level and orientation of simulated patients.

Keywords:

Emergency medicine
Medical emergency
Medicine
Triage
emergency situations
emergency centre
prehospital triage
General Emergency Department
Intraclass correlation
Confidence interval
Simulated patient

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