Reliability of the Swiss Emergency Triage Scale (SETS®) Used by Emergency Medical Service (EMS) Providers

University Hospitals (UH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Emergency Medical Services; Triage

Treatments: Device: Mobile triage system

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02559531

CCER 15-083

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Swiss Emergency Triage Scale (SETS) in used for triage in emergency departments in Switzerland, France and Belgium. No validated triage scale is actually used by Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers. The objective of this project is to evaluate the reliability and performance of triage by EMS providers with the SETS.

Full description

The Swiss Emergency Triage Scale (SETS) in used for triage in emergency departments in Switzerland, France and Belgium. No validated triage scale is actually used by EMS providers. The objective of this project is to evaluate the reliability and performance of triage by EMS providers with the SETS.

In order to perform this evaluation a cohort of 22 EMS providers will evaluate 28 standardized clinical scenarios using a computer simulator.

Enrollment: 23 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All EMS providers employed by a private ambulance company in the State of Geneva, Switzerland

Exclusion criteria

• Not giving informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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23 participants in 1 patient group

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

EMS providers will evaluate computerized clinical scenarios using a mobile triage device

Treatment:

Device: Mobile triage system