Open AccessReliability and performance of the Swiss Emergency Triage Scale used by paramedics
Author(s) -
Olivier Grosgurin,
Angèle Gayet-Ageron,
Laurent Suppan,
Jeremy R. Simon,
Adolfo Baloira Villar,
Véronique Trombert,
Christophe Marti,
François Sarasin,
Olivier Rutschmann
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
european journal of emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.716
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1473-5695
pISSN - 0969-9546
DOI - 10.1097/mej.0000000000000530
Subject(s) - triage , reliability (semiconductor) , medical emergency , scale (ratio) , emergency medical services , medicine , emergency medicine , geography , power (physics) , physics , cartography , quantum mechanics
No general emergency department triage scale has been evaluated for prehospital triage. The objective of this study was to evaluate the reliability and the performance of the Swiss Emergency Triage Scale (SETS) used by paramedics to determine the emergency level and orientation of simulated patients.