Assessment of patient mobility improves the risk stratification of triage with the Emergency Severity Index: a prospective cohort study.

Background And Importance: Formal triage may assign a low acuity to patients at high risk of deterioration and mortality. A patient's mobility can be easily assessed at triage.

Objective: To investigate if a simple assessment of mobility at triage can improve the Emergency Severity Index's (ESI) prediction of adverse outcomes.

Emergency department patients with weakness or fatigue: Can physicians predict their outcomes at the front door? A prospective observational study.

Background: Generalized weakness and fatigue are underexplored symptoms in emergency medicine. Triage tools often underestimate patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with these nonspecific symptoms (Nemec et al., 2010).

Ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia and reduction of distal radius fractures in an emergency department.

Objectives: Distal radius fractures are among the most common fractures. Ultrasound is gaining importance in the treatment of and as a tool to diagnose distal radius fractures, guide regional anaesthesia and support reductions. Our aim was to demonstrate safety, feasibility and outcome in patients with a distal radius fractures undergoing ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia (UGRA) with ultrasound-guided reduction (UGR), as compared with procedural sedation for the reduction.

Physicians' Disease Severity Ratings are Non-Inferior to the Emergency Severity Index.

Our objective was to compare informal physicians' disease severity ratings (PDSR) at presentation with the well-established Emergency Severity Index (ESI) in order to test for non-inferiority of the discriminatory ability regarding hospitalization, intensive care, and mortality. We made a prospective observational study with consecutive enrollment. At presentation, the PDSR and subsequently Emergency Severity Index (ESI) levels were recorded.

A simple prognostic score predicts one-year mortality of alert and calm emergency department patients: A prospective two-center observational study.

Study Objective: To derive and validate a prognostic score to predict 1-year mortality using vital signs, mobility and other variables that are readily available at the bedside at no additional cost.

Methods: Post hoc analysis of two independent prospective observational studies in two emergency departments, one in Denmark and the other in Switzerland.

Participants: Alert and calm emergency department patients.

Clinical Scores and Formal Triage for Screening of Sepsis and Adverse Outcomes on Arrival in an Emergency Department All-Comer Cohort.

Background: Early recognition of sepsis remains a major challenge. The clinical utility of the Quick Sepsis-Related Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) score is still undefined. Several studies have tested its prognostic value.

Mobility Identifies Acutely Ill Patients at Low Risk of In-Hospital Mortality: A Prospective Multicenter Study.

Background: A retrospective study has reported that impaired mobility on presentation (IMOP) enhanced the ability of vital signs to predict mortality in acutely ill patients. This study was designed to further examine the association between IMOP and in-hospital mortality.

Methods: Prospective observational study of three different cohorts of acutely ill patients admitted to hospitals in Esbjerg, Denmark (998 patients), Basel, Switzerland (743 patients), and Kitovu, Uganda (1,622 patients).