Variation in decision-making in trauma team activation by emergency nurses at a Dutch level 1 trauma centre: poster presentation

Introduction: Trauma team activation is a kind of triage the staff of an Emergency Department (ED) exerts to determine whether a trauma team needs to be activated for severely injured patients and in what composition the team needs to be deployed. It is a difficult decision-making process which is often performed by ED nurses and influenced by several factors. Objective: Understand the trauma team activation decision-making process at a Dutch ED and obtain insight in the importance of several factors of influence according to ED nurses. Methods: Cross-sectional fractional factorial design. Pat... Mehr ...