Triage systems for pre-hospital emergency medical services - a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: The emergency medical services (EMS) cover initiatives and services established to provide essential medical assistance in situations of acute illness. Triage-methods for systematic prioritizing of patients according to how urgent patients need care, including triage of requests of acute medical treatment, are adopted in hospitals as well as in the pre-hospital settings. This systematic review searched to identify available research on the effects of validated triage systems for use in the pre-hospital EMS on health outcomes, patient safety, patient satisfaction, user-friendliness, resource use, goal achievement, and the quality on the information exchange between the different settings of the EMS (for example the quality of documentation). The specific research questions were: 1) are pre-

SUBMITTER: Lidal IB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3641954 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature