Evaluation quality of triage in burn patient’s transelation to Imam Musa Kazem hospital.

Background and Aim : Abstract Aim. The aim of this study was to determine the current quality of triage in burn patients sent to burn center in Esfahan University of Medical Sciences in 2017. Background. Accurate and rapid patient triage in emergency departments is the key to a successful performance. The study and understanding of the current condition and evaluation of the educational needs of triage nurses are highly important. Methods : This study is a retrospective descriptive study in which the data were gathered via in a list of ESI triage forms. To determine the content validity of data collection tools was used. In this study, the reliability of the test listed under triage nurse was both between observers and reliability with Burn Intraclass Correlation Coeffcient (BICC) : 0.675 was specifed. Results : In this study,28% of the case were undertriage and 10.2% were overtriage.The most of undertriage cases was level 3 based on Emergency Severity Index (ESI) system. There is a direct correlation between the mortality and hospitalization in the Burn Intensive Care Unit (BICU) and undertriage. Conclusion : There was no statistically signifcant difference between proper triage and undertriage cases in mean length of hospital stay, duration of hospitalization and emergency department waiting time for the frst visit of the emergency physician.

Keywords:

Triage , burn , transelation