Funding for this research was provided by:
Västra Götalandsregionen (VGFOUREG-931220)
University of Gothenburg
Article History
Received: 3 June 2021
Accepted: 22 September 2021
First Online: 2 October 2021
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the Gothenburg Regional Ethics Committee (783–18). In accordance with the ethical approval, informed verbal consent was obtained from all participants. Administrative permission to access the hospital records was granted by the Head of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and in accordance with ethical approval.
: Not applicable.
: LL received an emergency medicine research grant from Predicare in 2017. When developing the GOTS, the team decided to create a system that could be integrated into RETTS, the main triage system 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.HE, OK and VS have no competing interest to declare.