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Article History

Received: 1 July 2021

Accepted: 22 October 2021

First Online: 6 November 2021

Declarations

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: Scientific evaluation of the GOTS was approved by the Ethics Committee in Gothenburg (permit number 783–18). Administrative permission to access the hospital records was granted by the Head of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and in accordance with ethical approval. Questionnaires evaluating patient satisfaction are part of the hospitals quality evaluation and answered anonymously. Need for consent was deemed unnecessary by the ethics committee.

: Not applicable.

: LL received an emergency medicine research grant from Predicare in 2017. When developing the Gothenburg Obstetric Triage System (GOTS), the team decided to create a system that could be integrated into the Rapid Emergency Triage and Treatment System (RETTS), the main triage system used in Sweden. RETTS is owned and distributed by Predicare. Representatives of Predicare had no part in the development of the GOTS, other than providing the layout and general outline of the RETTS. LL, project leader in the development of the GOTS, sold the GOTS copyright to Predicare in January 2019. The transaction was made prior to initiating research on triage and the system itself. Representatives of Predicare had no influence on study design, data collection, analysis or publishing of data. LL has been sporadically consulted by Predicare without any further payment. LL has no other competing interest to declare.RK, MOO, HE, OK and VS have no competing interest to declare.