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| Title |
Relationship between risk stratification in emergency medical services, mortality and hospital length of stay
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| Published in |
Investigación y Educación en Enfermería, October 2015
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| DOI | 10.17533/udea.iee.v33n3a05 |
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| Authors |
Paula Caroline Gonçales, Domingos Pinto Júnior, Patrícia de Oliveira Salgado, Tânia Couto Machado Chianca |
| Abstract |
To evaluate the relationship between risk stratification, mortality and hospital length of stay in emergency medical services. A prospective cohort study that used the information in the ALERTÒ database of the HOSPUB to know the evolution of patients classified by nurses using the Manchester Risk Classification Triage System in the emergency medical services, of the Belo Horizonte Municipal Hospital - MG, Brazil. 147,167 patients were analyzed, 5.9% were female. The most common risk classification was yellow (47.4%), followed by green (36.5%), orange (14.2%), blue (1.3%) and red (0.6%). The mean length of stay was less than one day in 95.4% of patients who were discharged from the hospital. Thirty percent of the patients classified as red, 2% of those classified as orange, and 0.3% of those classified as yellow died. There was direct a relationship between the severity of patient classification and the length of hospital stay. The risk classification system used by nurses in the hospital was a good predictor of death and hospital length of stay for patients admitted to the emergency medical services. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 28 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 28 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 5 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 3 | 11% |
| Other | 3 | 11% |
| Other | 4 | 14% |
| Unknown | 6 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 29% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 7 | 25% |
| Arts and Humanities | 1 | 4% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 1 | 4% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 9 | 32% |