https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2011.3.27

Triage Emergency Method Version 2 (TEM v2). A new triage within hospital method

Vol. 7 No. 3 (2011)
Submitted: 9 January 2013
Accepted: 9 January 2013
Published: 9 September 2011
triage, emergency department, Delphi technique, Italian emergency triage system
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Nicola Parenti
lucia.zoppi@pagepress.org
Università di Parma, Italy.
Vito Serventi
Università di Parma, Italy.
Rossella Miglio
Università di Bologna, Italy.
Stefano Masi
Dipartimento di Pediatria e Medicina d’Urgenza dell’Ospedale Meyer, Firenze, Italy.
Leopoldo Sarli
Università di Parma, Italy.
Our aim was to check if TEM v1, a new four-level in-hospital triage with good inter- and intra-rater reliability, reaches a large consensus among Italian triage experts. Finally we tried to improve the model and to create a new model: TEM v2. A 2 round modified Delphi study was conducted including 25 triage experts. The predetermined consensus level was considered 80%. Total return rate was 72% (18/25), the return rate for round one and two was 92% (23/25) and 78% (18/23) respectively. After the first round, a set of 11 questions was sent with the new TEM v2. Eight items of round 2 reached more than 80% of consensus. Using the Delphi technique we developed from TEM v1, the new triage tool TEM v2 which reached a large consensus among a panel of triage experts. This is, to our knowledge, the first Italian study which uses the Delphi technique to reach consensus on a triage system and to improve it.

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Parenti, N., Serventi, V., Miglio, R., Masi, S., & Sarli, L. (2011). Triage Emergency Method Version 2 (TEM v2). A new triage within hospital method. Emergency Care Journal, 7(3), 27–34. https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2011.3.27

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