Triage represents the first opportunity to classify patients who come to an Emergency Department (ED) and to be able to identify, prioritize high-risk patients and efficiently allocate the limited resources that are available. Therefore, the purpose of triage in the ED is to prioritize patients, detecting those that are urgent (that cannot wait to be attended). Urgency is defined as that clinical situation with the capacity to generate deterioration or danger to the health or life of the patient, depending on the time elapsed between its appearance and the establishment of an effective treatment, which determines a healthcare episode with significant intervention needs in a short period of time. There are currently six triage systems or models systematically structured into 5 levels. Although simple in concept, the practice of triage is challenging due to time pressure, the limitations of available information, the various medical conditions of the patients, and a great reliance on intuition on the part of the professionals who perform it. which conditions a great variability in it. On the other hand, almost half of adult ED visits nationwide are classified as level 3 in a 5-level structured triage system, which makes level 3 a heterogeneous group with patients with diverse pathologies, in which triage is not capable of accurately differentiating them, and this inability poses safety risks for the most severely ill patients ("under-triage") and may influence the accuracy and efficiency in resource allocation when patients with low acuity are overrated. Therefore, it seems necessary to develop new triage procedures that allow us to improve their accuracy and reduce inter-individual variability. TIAGO is a prospective, single-center, observational, comparative study to determine the validity of the Mediktor ® Triage and its effectiveness with respect to the current triage system and the "gold standard" (physician's diagnosis).
Age range
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
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Number of patients with equivalence between emergency triage classifications
Timeframe: 3 days