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Improving the prioritization of children at the emergency department: Updating the Manchester Triage System using vital signs
BACKGROUND: Vital signs are used in emergency care settings in the first assessment of children to identify those that need immediate attention. We aimed to develop and validate vital sign based Manchester Triage System (MTS) discriminators to improve triage of children at the emergency department....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7872278/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33561116 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246324 |
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author | Zachariasse, Joany M. Maconochie, Ian K. Nijman, Ruud G. Greber-Platzer, Susanne Smit, Frank J. Nieboer, Daan van der Lei, Johan Alves, Claudio F. Moll, Henriëtte A. |
author_facet | Zachariasse, Joany M. Maconochie, Ian K. Nijman, Ruud G. Greber-Platzer, Susanne Smit, Frank J. Nieboer, Daan van der Lei, Johan Alves, Claudio F. Moll, Henriëtte A. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Vital signs are used in emergency care settings in the first assessment of children to identify those that need immediate attention. We aimed to develop and validate vital sign based Manchester Triage System (MTS) discriminators to improve triage of children at the emergency department. METHODS AND FINDINGS: The TrIAGE project is a prospective observational study based on electronic health record data from five European EDs (Netherlands (n = 2), United Kingdom, Austria, and Portugal). In the current study, we included 117,438 consecutive children <16 years presenting to the ED during the study period (2012–2015). We derived new discriminators based on heart rate, respiratory rate, and/or capillary refill time for specific subgroups of MTS flowcharts. Moreover, we determined the optimal cut-off value for each vital sign. The main outcome measure was a previously developed 3-category reference standard (high, intermediate, low urgency) for the required urgency of care, based on mortality at the ED, immediate lifesaving interventions, disposition and resource use. We determined six new discriminators for children <1 year and ≥1 year: “Very abnormal respiratory rate”, “Abnormal heart rate”, and “Abnormal respiratory rate”, with optimal cut-offs, and specific subgroups of flowcharts. Application of the modified MTS reclassified 744 patients (2.5%). Sensitivity increased from 0.66 (95%CI 0.60–0.72) to 0.71 (0.66–0.75) for high urgency patients and from 0.67 (0.54–0.76) to 0.70 (0.58–0.80) for high and intermediate urgency patients. Specificity decreased from 0.90 (0.86–0.93) to 0.89 (0.85–0.92) for high and 0.66 (0.52–0.78) to 0.63 (0.50–0.75) for high and intermediate urgency patients. These differences were statistically significant. Overall performance improved (R(2) 0.199 versus 0.204). CONCLUSIONS: Six new discriminators based on vital signs lead to a small but relevant increase in performance and should be implemented in the MTS. |
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spelling | pubmed-78722782021-02-19 Improving the prioritization of children at the emergency department: Updating the Manchester Triage System using vital signs Zachariasse, Joany M. Maconochie, Ian K. Nijman, Ruud G. Greber-Platzer, Susanne Smit, Frank J. Nieboer, Daan van der Lei, Johan Alves, Claudio F. Moll, Henriëtte A. PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: Vital signs are used in emergency care settings in the first assessment of children to identify those that need immediate attention. We aimed to develop and validate vital sign based Manchester Triage System (MTS) discriminators to improve triage of children at the emergency department. METHODS AND FINDINGS: The TrIAGE project is a prospective observational study based on electronic health record data from five European EDs (Netherlands (n = 2), United Kingdom, Austria, and Portugal). In the current study, we included 117,438 consecutive children <16 years presenting to the ED during the study period (2012–2015). We derived new discriminators based on heart rate, respiratory rate, and/or capillary refill time for specific subgroups of MTS flowcharts. Moreover, we determined the optimal cut-off value for each vital sign. The main outcome measure was a previously developed 3-category reference standard (high, intermediate, low urgency) for the required urgency of care, based on mortality at the ED, immediate lifesaving interventions, disposition and resource use. We determined six new discriminators for children <1 year and ≥1 year: “Very abnormal respiratory rate”, “Abnormal heart rate”, and “Abnormal respiratory rate”, with optimal cut-offs, and specific subgroups of flowcharts. Application of the modified MTS reclassified 744 patients (2.5%). Sensitivity increased from 0.66 (95%CI 0.60–0.72) to 0.71 (0.66–0.75) for high urgency patients and from 0.67 (0.54–0.76) to 0.70 (0.58–0.80) for high and intermediate urgency patients. Specificity decreased from 0.90 (0.86–0.93) to 0.89 (0.85–0.92) for high and 0.66 (0.52–0.78) to 0.63 (0.50–0.75) for high and intermediate urgency patients. These differences were statistically significant. Overall performance improved (R(2) 0.199 versus 0.204). CONCLUSIONS: Six new discriminators based on vital signs lead to a small but relevant increase in performance and should be implemented in the MTS. Public Library of Science 2021-02-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7872278/ /pubmed/33561116 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246324 Text en © 2021 Zachariasse et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Zachariasse, Joany M. Maconochie, Ian K. Nijman, Ruud G. Greber-Platzer, Susanne Smit, Frank J. Nieboer, Daan van der Lei, Johan Alves, Claudio F. Moll, Henriëtte A. Improving the prioritization of children at the emergency department: Updating the Manchester Triage System using vital signs |
title | Improving the prioritization of children at the emergency department: Updating the Manchester Triage System using vital signs |
title_full | Improving the prioritization of children at the emergency department: Updating the Manchester Triage System using vital signs |
title_fullStr | Improving the prioritization of children at the emergency department: Updating the Manchester Triage System using vital signs |
title_full_unstemmed | Improving the prioritization of children at the emergency department: Updating the Manchester Triage System using vital signs |
title_short | Improving the prioritization of children at the emergency department: Updating the Manchester Triage System using vital signs |
title_sort | improving the prioritization of children at the emergency department: updating the manchester triage system using vital signs |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7872278/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33561116 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246324 |
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