1. A Canadian consensus-based list of urgent and specialized in-hospital trauma care interventions to assess the accuracy of prehospital trauma triage protocols: a modified Delphi study
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Mercier, Eric, Nadeau, Alexandra, Sage, Natalie Le, Moore, Lynne, Malo, Christian, Blanchard, Pierre-Gilles, Fleet, Richard, and Emond, Marcel
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Practice guidelines (Medicine) ,Trauma centers -- Quality management ,Ambulatory medical care -- Quality management ,Triage (Medicine) -- Methods ,Health ,Health care industry - Abstract
Background: Injury severity scales have traditionally been used to assess the perform ance of prehospital trauma triage protocols, but they correlate weakly with the urgent needs of specialized trauma care interventions. This study aimed to develop a list of in-hospital urgent and specialized trauma care interventions that require direct transport to the highest-level trauma centre within the catchment area. Methods: Based on a list of potential participants we obtained using data on training, experience, geographic location, affliations and role within key trauma organizations, we recruited multidisciplinary trauma experts (including prehospital, emergency, surgery and intensive care clinicians, epidemiologists and clinician/decision-makers) from across Canada to complete a 3-round modified Delphi survey. We conducted a literature review of the criteria used to define urgent and specialized trauma care, and included all diagnostic and therapeutic interventions presented in previously published studies in the list of interventions to present to the panellists. The final list was determined by our advisory committee, 5 clinicians with experience in trauma care. Participants were asked to rate their level of agreement for potentially including the 38 items as urgent and specialized trauma care interventions on a 9-point Likert scale. Interventions were retained if more than 67% of participants moderately or strongly agreed (7-9 on the Likert scale). Interventions that did not reach consensus were presented again in the subsequent round. Results: Twenty-three panellists were recruited. The response rate was 91%, 96% and 83% for the 3 rounds. After the Delphi process, 30 of the 38 interventions, including endotracheal intubation, blood product administration and angioembolization, and abdominal, thoracic, neurosurgical, spinal and/or orthopedic operations (excluding hip or limb surgery, and toe or finger amputation), were selected. Hospital admission to the intensive care unit and/or for observation of brain, spinal, thoracic or abdominal injuries were also retained. Conclusion: We developed a Canadian consensus-based list of urgent and specialized in-hospital trauma care interventions requiring direct transportation to a major trauma centre. This list should help standardize assessments of current protocols and derive new triage tools. Contexte : Les echelles de gravite des blessures sont habituellement utilisees pour evaluer les performances des protocoles de triage prehospitalier des traumatismes, mais elles sont inadaptees aux besoins urgents des interventions specialisees en traumatologie. La presente etude visait a concevoir une liste des interventions hospitalieres urgentes et specialisees en traumatologie necessitant un transport direct vers le centre de traumatologie du niveau le plus eleve de la circonscription hospitaliere. Methodes : Nous avons constitue une liste de participants potentiels d'apres des donnees sur la formation, l'experience, l'emplacement geographique, les affliations et le poste au sein d'etablissements majeurs en traumatologie pour recruter differents experts en traumatologie (dont des professionnels des soins prehospitaliers, des soins d'urgence, des soins intensifs et de la chirurgie, des epidemiologistes ainsi que des cliniciens decideurs) de tout le Canada a qui nous avons demande de remplir un questionnaire Delphi modife en 3 etapes. Nous avons effectue une revue de la litterature des criteres utilises pour definir les soins urgents et specialises en traumatologie et avons inclus l'ensemble des interventions diagnostiques et therapeutiques decrites dans les etudes precedentes a la liste des interventions presentees aux panelistes. Notre comite consultatif, 5 professionnels de la sante connaissant bien la traumatologie, s'est entendu sur la liste definitive. Les participants ont note la classification potentielle de 38 elements comme des interventions urgentes et specialisees en traumatologie sur une echelle de Likert en 9 points. Les interventions moderement ou fortement approuvees par plus de 67 % des participants (7-9 sur l'echelle de Likert) ont ete retenues, tandis que celles qui n'ont pas abouti a un consensus ont ete presentees a nouveau a l'etape suivante. Resultats : Vingt-trois panelistes ont ete recrutes et ont ete 91 %, 96 % et 83 % a repondre a chaque etape du sondage. A l'issue du processus Delphi, 30 des 38 interventions, dont l'intubation tracheale, l'administration de produits sanguins et l'angioembolisation, ainsi que les chirurgies abdominales, thoraciques, neurochirurgicales, orthopediques et du rachis (a l'exclusion de la chirurgie de la hanche ou des membres et l'amputation des orteils ou des doigts) ont ete selectionnees. L'hospitali sa tion en soins intensifs ou pour observation d'un traumatisme cranien, medullaire, tho ra cique ou abdominal a aussi ete retenue. Conclusion : Nous avons elabore une liste canadienne par consensus des interventions hospitalieres urgentes et specialisees en traumatologie necessitant un transport direct vers un grand centre de traumatologie afin de normaliser les evaluations des protocoles actuels pour en tirer de nouveaux outils de triage., Trauma is the leading cause of mortality, morbidity and health-related productivity loss among young adults and carries an estimated annual cost of $27 billion in Canada. 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- 2023
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