Aubrion, Antoine http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2328-917X
Clanet, Romain
Jourdan, JP
Creveuil, Christian
Roupie, E
Macrez, Richard
Article History
Received: 16 January 2022
Accepted: 17 November 2022
First Online: 12 December 2022
Declarations
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: This prospective observational study is not subject to the criteria established by article R1121-2 of the public health code, and therefore outside the competence of the committee for the protection of individuals. Indeed, it belongs to non-interventional research without patient participation or access to medical data.
: Our study proposes the evaluation by professional nurses or apprentices of clinical situations on paper proposed in the learning guide of the Emergency Severity Index (ESI), and those of the French Emergency Nurse Classification in Hospital Scale (FRENCH). These practice cases are the official tests that give the correct triage for each situation. They are considered gold standard cases for testing the validity of the sorting in each scale.
: The evaluation of a triage scale with real patients would not allow to compare the 2 scales between them. It would be similar to evaluating how well a team of nurses can triage patients. It cannot independently evaluate the tool itself. As indicated in the bibliography, direct validity can only be achieved by using the paper-based situations proposed in the learning guide for each scale.
: All participating nurses were informed about the objectives of the survey. Their written consent was obtained before filling in the questionnaire. The clinical situations used were those of the official national guides. No real patients or medical data were used in this study.
: The clinical situations used were those of the official national guides. No real patients or medical data were used in this study.
: was obtained for all study participants and all authors of the manuscript. Unfortunately, Pr Eric Roupie died suddenly after the submission phase, and before the exchanges with the reviewers. The corrections have been made with respect to his contributions and the same way of the initial article. We wish to dedicate this work to his memory.
: The authors have no competing interests.