Remote triage in paediatric critical care: A Canadian provincial-wide cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe remote triage of 'potentially' critically ill or injured children in a western Canadian province and to examine the associated factors with 'missings' in vital sign items recorded in centralized telephone triage consultations.

Methods

This is a provincial-wide prospective cohort study. We included all children under 17 years of age consulted through the central transport coordination centres in Alberta from June 2016 to July 2017. We labeled a value as 'missing' when the actual value was not identified in the audio records.

Results

In total, 429 cases were included in this study. The median duration of triage calls was 6.8 minutes. Although the patients' demographics and primary diagnoses were similar, backgrounds of the referring physicians and

SUBMITTER: Kawaguchi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8077196 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature