Part | Patients/scenarios | Nurses | Setting | Outcome |
1 | 20 written case scenarios | 43 nurses | ED general teaching hospital* ED university hospital† | Repeatability |
2 | 198 real-life simultaneous triage assessments | First triage: triage nurse‡ Second triage: research nurse‡ | ED general teaching hospital* ED university hospital† | Repeatability |
↵* Erasmus University Medical Center—Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
↵† Haga Hospital—Juliana Children's Hospital, The Hague, The Netherlands.
↵‡ During the selected shifts, one out of 25 nurses performed triage, and one out of two research nurses performed the second triage assessment.
ED, emergency department.