Netherlands Triage Standard

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How it works

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Highlighted claims

• The NTS protocol produces urgency codes from U1 to U5, with U1 and U2 treated as high urgency requiring care within 60 minutes. — Marburg Heart Score and INTERCHEST score for telephone triage of acute chest pain: a prospective, diagnostic accuracy study in out-of-hours primary care
• The NTS correctly identified nearly all major events and all ACS cases in the analysed group. — Marburg Heart Score and INTERCHEST score for telephone triage of acute chest pain: a prospective, diagnostic accuracy study in out-of-hours primary care
• The NTS chest pain protocol was the comparator standard used during routine telephone triage. — Marburg Heart Score and INTERCHEST score for telephone triage of acute chest pain: a prospective, diagnostic accuracy study in out-of-hours primary care
• The main disadvantage of NTS was low specificity and high false positive rates. — Marburg Heart Score and INTERCHEST score for telephone triage of acute chest pain: a prospective, diagnostic accuracy study in out-of-hours primary care
• High sensitivity was considered clinically important for NTS in telephone triage because missed urgent cases are riskier than unnecessary urgent referral. — Marburg Heart Score and INTERCHEST score for telephone triage of acute chest pain: a prospective, diagnostic accuracy study in out-of-hours primary care
• The current NTS protocol's high sensitivity remained a critical advantage in telephone triage. — Marburg Heart Score and INTERCHEST score for telephone triage of acute chest pain: a prospective, diagnostic accuracy study in out-of-hours primary care