TY - JOUR AU - Barfod, Charlotte AU - Lauritzen, Marlene Mauson Pankoke AU - Danker, Jakob Klim AU - Sölétormos, György AU - Forberg, Jakob Lundager AU - Berlac, Peter Anthony AU - Lippert, Freddy AU - Lundstrøm, Lars Hyldborg AU - Antonsen, Kristian AU - Lange, Kai Henrik Wiborg PY - 2012 DA - 2012/04/10 TI - Abnormal vital signs are strong predictors for intensive care unit admission and in-hospital mortality in adults triaged in the emergency department - a prospective cohort study JO - Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine SP - 28 VL - 20 IS - 1 AB - Assessment and treatment of the acutely ill patient have improved by introducing systematic assessment and accelerated protocols for specific patient groups. Triage systems are widely used, but few studies have investigated the ability of the triage systems in predicting outcome in the unselected acute population. The aim of this study was to quantify the association between the main component of the Hillerød Acute Process Triage (HAPT) system and the outcome measures; Admission to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and in-hospital mortality, and to identify the vital signs, scored and categorized at admission, that are most strongly associated with the outcome measures. SN - 1757-7241 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-20-28 DO - 10.1186/1757-7241-20-28 ID - Barfod2012 ER -