Emergency Department (ED) Triage of Alcohol Abuse

University Hospitals (UH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Alcoholic Intoxication

Treatments: Other: No intervention

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02449772

CER-14083R

Details and patient eligibility

About

Retrospective study of adult patients (> 16 y) admitted to Geneva University Hospitals with alcohol abuse. Triage criteria will be reviewed. Patients characteristics and patient flow in the ED will be described.

Full description

A retrospective analysis of triage notes and electronic medical records will be performed in order to identify how triage evaluation is performed accordingly to the Swiss Emergency Triage Scale criteria. The proportion of patients leaving without being seen will be computed. Caracteristics of these patients will be compared to patients with medical evaluation.

Enrollment: 775 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Triage code = alcohol abuse
• > 16 y

Exclusion criteria

• No alcohol abuse identified at triage
• < 16 y