Background Triage is a dynamic environment in which large numbers of people can present.
It presents a vulnerable assessment point, as a triage nurse must assess a patient's urgency …

Aim The purpose of this realist review was to assess what works, for whom and in what
context, regarding strategies that influence nurses' behaviour to improve triage quality in …

Introduction: In cases of mass-casualty incidents (MCIs), triage represents a fundamental
tool for the management of and assistance to the wounded, which helps discriminate not …

Introduction While many patients visit the emergency department (ED) for various reasons,
medical resources are limited. Therefore, various triage scale systems have been used to …

Purpose In the prehospital care of potentially seriously injured patients resource allocation
adapted to injury severity (triage) is a challenging. Insufficiently specified triage algorithms …

It is to be hoped that much more attention should be drawn toward properly constructing
scenarios to ensure the accuracy of the decisions made by triage nurses, because there is a …

Purpose An injury severity score (ISS)≥ 16 alone, is commonly used post hoc to define the
correct activation of a trauma team. However, abnormal vital functions and the requirement …

Purpose Many trauma patients who are transported to our level I trauma center have minor
injuries that do not require full trauma team activation (FTTA). Thus, we implemented a two …

Objective To investigate impact of five-level triage system on Emergency Department (ED)
patients' outcome and resources' utilization. Design A comparative observational study (pre …

Trauma triage occurs in suboptimal environments for making consequential decisions.
Published triage studies demonstrate the extremes of the complexity/accuracy trade-off …