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The investigators aim to evaluate in a retrospective study the performance of the Swiss Emergency Triage Scale to identify at the door of the Emergency Department patients requiring emergent intervention.
All patients are triaged at the door of our Emergency Department using the Swiss Emergency Triage Scale. Patients with abdominal pain may be triaged in two different emergency levels (level 2: medical evaluation within 20 minutes, level 3: medical evaluation within 2 hours). These levels are determined using a set of specific criteria.
The aim of this study is to evaluate the validity of these specific criteria in order to identify promptly patients with abdominal pain the will require an emergent intervention during their stay in the Emergency Department.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patients with abdominal pain | Adult patients admitted to the Emergency Department with a main complaint of abdominal pain |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Emergency intervention | Emergency intervention is a composite outcome of: emergency surgical intervention or radiological intervention or emergent endoscopy | participants will be followed for the duration of hospital stay, an expected average of 2 weeks |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Time to medical evaluation | We will evaluate the delay between triage evaluation and medical evaluation. We will compute the percentage of patients evaluated within timeframe accordingly to the Swiss Triage Emergency Scale | participants will be followed for the duration of emergency department stay, an expected average of 5 hours |
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Adults (> 16 y) admitted with abdominal pain in the Emergency Departement of a primary and tertiary teaching urban hospital.
| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olivier T Rutschmann, MD, MPH | Contact | +41223728132 | 28132 | olivier.rutschmann@hcuge.ch |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Olivier T Rutschmann, MD, MPH | University Hospital, Geneva | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Geneva University Hospitals | Recruiting | Geneva | 1211 | Switzerland |
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| ID | Term |
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| D015746 | Abdominal Pain |
| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D010146 | Pain |
| D009461 | Neurologic Manifestations |
| D012816 | Signs and Symptoms |
| D013568 | Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms |
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| D012817 | Signs and Symptoms, Digestive |