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Chinese Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Nursing ›› 2024, Vol. 5 ›› Issue (8): 701-705.doi: 10.3761/j.issn.2096-7446.2024.08.005

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Study on the construction and application of standardized terminology database for the chief complaint of patients in emergency triage

CHEN Chen, YAN Danping, WANG Sa, ZHOU Shuaishuai, HUANG Chang, WANG Yuwei   

  1. Department of Nursing,The Second Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University School of Medicine,Hangzhou 310009,China
  • Received:2024-02-06 Published:2024-08-07

Abstract: Objective To establish the standardized terminology database of patient complaint and observe its application effect in emergency triage. Methods Based on the list of chief complaints in the Canadian emergency information system,the information of chief complaints in the major disease systems and the emergency triage system of our hospital in the past five years was added. According to the standard medical terminology set,the chief complaint list(chief complaint module) was determined by expert inquiry,supplemented by disease duration (sub-chief complaint module) and International Classification of Diseases(ICD) 10 diagnosis list(auxiliary chief complaint module),the standardized chief complaint terminology database was formed. Then the standardized chief complaint terminology database was applied to the emergency triage system by jointing with information department. Emergency patients in September 2023 who were triaged using the standardized terminology database of chief complaint were selected as the experimental group,and emergency patients who were recorded in the form of routine free text in the same period of 2022 were selected as the control group. The triage time,triage coincidence rate and 72-h unplanned return rate were compared between the two groups. Results After applying the standardized terminology database of chief complaint,triage time was reduced from(327.33±44.32) seconds to (174.23±49.02) seconds,and the triage coincidence rate increased from 95.27% to 98.34%,which was statistically significant (P<0.001). The 72-hour unplanned return rate was zero in both groups. Conclusion The application of the standardized terminology database of chief complaint to the emergency triage has played a role in promoting the standardization of chief complaint,the timeliness of triage and the efficiency of emergency care,contributing to the statistics of medical data and the quality control of triage,and improving the efficiency of emergency care.

Key words: Emergency, Triage, Chief Complaint, Standardized Terminology, Database, Nursing Care