tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Reliability and validity of triage systems in paediatric emergency care"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học quốc tế cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Reliability and validity of triage systems in paediatric emergency care | Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine BioMed Central Open Access Review Reliability and validity of triage systems in paediatric emergency care Mirjam van Veen and Henriette A Moll Address Department of Paediatrics Erasmus MC-Sophia Children s Hospital University Medical Center Rotterdam PO Box 2060 3000 CB Rotterdam The Netherlands Email Mirjam van Veen - Henriette A Moll - Corresponding author Published 27 August 2009 Received 9 June 2009 Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17 38 doi 1757-7241 -17-38 Accepted 27 August 2009 This article is available from http content 17 1 38 2009 van Veen and Moll licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Triage in paediatric emergency care is an important tool to prioritize seriously ill children. Triage can also be used to identify patients who do not need urgent care and who can safely wait. The aim of this review was to provide an overview of the literature on reliability and validity of current triage systems in paediatric emergency care Methods We performed a search in Pubmed and Cochrane on studies on reliability and validity of triage systems in children Results The Manchester Triage System MTS the Emergency Severity Index ESI the Paediatric Canadian Triage and Acuity Score paedCTAS and the Australasian Triage Scale ATS are common used triage systems and contain specific parts for children. The reliability of the MTS is good and reliability of the ESI is moderate to good. Reliability of the paedCTAS is moderate and is poor to moderate for the ATS. The internal validity is moderate for the MTS and confirmed for the CTAS but