Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
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Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd · Aug 2020
[The Netherlands Triage Standard applied to paediatric patients in emergency medicine: is it reliable and valid?]
To determine the inter-rater reliability and validity of the Netherlands Triage Standard (NTS) for paediatric triage. ⋯ The results of the study contribute to the evidence that the NTS is a reliable and valid triage standard for paediatric patients. The urgency assessments by triagists in the GP out-of-hours practices, ambulance dispatching centres and hospital emergency departments were broadly in agreement. Results were limited by cases being on paper and triage only on anamnestic characteristics.