To score or not to score during triage in the emergency department?

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Perceptions of Patient Safety Culture among Triage Nurses in the Emergency Department: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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2. The value of shock index, modified shock index and age shock index to predict mortality and hospitalisation in a district level emergency centre.African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence · 2023
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3. Investigating the professional capability of triage nurses in the emergency department and its determinants: a multicenter cross-sectional study in Iran.BMC emergency medicine · 2023
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4. Work experience of triage nurses in emergency departments during the prevalence of COVID-19.International emergency nursing · 2021
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5. Barriers to Integration of Primary Care into Emergency Care: Experiences in Germany.International journal of integrated care · 2021
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6. The Intensive Care Medicine research agenda on critically ill oncology and hematology patients.Intensive care medicine · 2017
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7. The modified south African triage scale system for mortality prediction in resource-constrained emergency surgical centers: a retrospective cohort study.BMC health services research · 2017
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8. Associations between Frailty and Delirium among Older Patients Admitted to an Emergency Department.Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extra
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Corrections and comments

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  A clinical prediction model to identify patients at high risk of death in the emergency department.2015

Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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