North Carolina — Targeted Issue

Evaluation of the Emergency Severity Index for Pediatric Triage

March 1, 2005 - Feb. 29, 2008

Grant Number
H34MCO4371
Project Overview
It is vital to quickly and accurately identify the sickest children who present to the emergency department and are in need of immediate intervention. Validated clinical triage guidelines are needed to differentiate these high acuity children from less sick children who can wait for limited resources. The goals of this project are to (1) perform reliability and validity testing of the Emergency Severity Index (ESI) version 4; and (2) revise the ESI v4 so it includes the most robust clinical and historical markers for pediatric triage.
Institution
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Main Contact
Award Amount
$600,000

Contacts

Name Role(s) Phone Email
Anna Waller, ScD
  • Principal Investigator

Products

Title Format Description Published/Revised Availability
Emergency Severity Index (ESI), A Triage Tool for Emergency Department Care. Version 4 Implementation Handbook Handbook/Manual This handbook covers all details of the Emergency Severity Index, a five-level emergency department (ED) triage algorithm that provides clinically … 2012 Available Online
ESI for Pediatric Triage Webcast Webinar 2010 Not Available
Set of 25 Pediatric Case Studies: Emergency Department Triage Guidance/Information 2010 Not Available
Annotated Bibliography-Pediatric Triage Literature Bibliography 2006 Not Available

Disseminations

Title Type Publication/Event Published/Presented Identifier Details
Reliability and validity of the emergency severity index for pediatric triage Research Paper/Publication Academic Emergency Medicine 2009
Creation of a Validated Set of Pediatric Case Scenarios for the Emergency Severity Index Triage System Abstract Academic Emergency Medicine 2006
No PMID or DOI
Is the emergency severity index reliable for pediatric triage? Abstract Annals of Emergency Medicine 2006
No PMID or DOI
Reliability of the Emergency Severity Index Version 4 Research Paper/Publication Academic Emergency Medicine 2006
No PMID or DOI