Validation of an Early Warning Score Based Triage System in the Emergency Department

Bispebjerg Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Critical Illness

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01243021

BBH98765

Details and patient eligibility

About

At Bispebjerg Hospital we have introduced an Early Warning Score based triage system , called Bispebjerg Early Warning Score (BEWS), in order to identify critically ill patient on arrival at the emergency department. The purpose of this study is to validate our triage system.

Enrollment: 300 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• "Red" patient
• Seen in our emergency department between 1. april 2009 and 30. september 2009

Exclusion criteria

• None