Trauma Quality Improvement: Reducing Triage Errors by Automating the Level Assignment Process

Trauma patients are triaged by the severity of their injury or need for intervention while en route to the trauma center according to trauma activation protocols that are institution specific. Significant research has been aimed at improving these protocols in order to optimize patient outcomes while striving for efficiency in care. However, it is known that patients are often undertriaged or overtriaged because protocol adherence remains imperfect. The goal of this quality improvement (QI) project was to improve this adherence, and thereby reduce the triage error.
Source: Journal of Surgical Education - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Original Reports Source Type: research