The emergency department trigger tool: a novel approach to screening for quality and safety events. | PSNet

The emergency department trigger tool: a novel approach to screening for quality and safety events. | PSNet

The emergency department trigger tool: a novel approach to screening for quality and safety events

Griffey RT, Schneider RM, Todorov AA. Ann Emerg Med. 2020

This study assessed the performance of an automated emergency department (ED) trigger tool designed to identify a more efficient sample of adverse event cases for chart review. Beginning with a set of 97 candidate triggers, researchers identified those triggers associated with adverse events and arrived at a narrowed set of 30 triggers, eliminating almost half of the population of records eligible for manual review. This computerized query may eliminate the need for manual screening for triggers.