Triage - Symptoms and Other Predictors in an All-comer Emergency Department Population

heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, respiration rate, peripheral capillary haemoglobin oxygen saturation)

Patients are asked how they assess their own mobility: - Stable walking without aids or limited mobility with aids (walking aid, wheelchair, lying down).

Assessment of level of consciousness by AVPUC scale (alert, new confusion, verbal, pain, unresponsive, new confusion)

Questionnaire with a predefined list of 37 symptoms

"Patients over the age of 65 are asked the following: generally asked: what matters most to you at the moment? and why is that important for you?."

Questionnaire consisting of 10 questions about the decision-making processes in the emergency department and the factors that form the basis of their decisions regarding the diagnosis, treatment, and disposition of the patient.

"The NRS is a segmented numeric version of the visual analog scale (VAS) in which a respondent selects a whole number (0-10 integers) that best reflects the intensity of his/her pain ('0' representing one pain extreme (e.g. no pain) to '10' representing the other pain extreme (e.g. pain as bad as you can imagine))"

The CFS is a commonly used score to assess frailty. It was developed within the Canadian Study of Health and Aging and consists of a 9-level ordinal scale ranging from very fit (score 1) to living with very severe frailty (score 8), and score 9 reserved for those who are terminally ill.