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Enhancing Triage Accuracy: A Clinical Audit of the Manchester Triage System Implementation

NCT05944406 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 494

Last updated 2023-07-13

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Summary

This clinical audit focused on improving how patients are prioritized and managed in the emergency department. The audit took place in a hospital in Rawalpindi and involved two cycles of data collection. The results showed that after an educational intervention, there was an improvement in accurately triaging patients and a decrease in cases that were categorized as urgent when they were not. The audit also revealed a decrease in non-urgent cases visiting the emergency department. The findings highlight the importance of proper training, following triage guidelines, and referring non-urgent cases to other departments. The suggestions include improving the triage process and making the emergency department more efficient for better patient care.

Conditions

  • Triage

Interventions

OTHER

Educational training of ER Nurses

educational intervention was conducted from 2nd to 5th May 2023 with the triage nurses. This intervention comprised of detailed explanations of how the Triage system is accurately used to categorize the patients presenting in the ED and Triage nurses were instructed to refer non-urgent cases to either the Outpatient department or to the Casualty Medical Officer. The results of the first audit were also shared. Additionally, circulars containing instructions regarding accurate usage of MTS were distributed to all triage nurses

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Rawalpindi Medical College

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
13 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-03-20
Primary Completion
2023-06-10
Completion
2023-06-10

Countries

  • Pakistan

Study Locations

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