ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION: Meeting the literature standards during the triage process of trauma victims, allows to make optimal use of the resources available in Trauma Centers and defines their level of quality and efficiency. Otherwise, it may occur over or under-triage. Up to now, in the reality under study and in the national literature, there wasn't any available data about efficiency and effectiveness in the triage of traumatic patients, therefore the primary objective of this study is to evaluate the over and under-triage rate in activating Trauma Team (TT) in the ASST of Monza San Gerardo Hospital. METHOD: The study design is retrospective monocentric observational. RESULTS: During the analysis, the TT-activation in ASST of Monza-San Gerardo Hospital produced an over-triage of 62,9% and an under-triage of 1,7% for the same year. DISCUSSION: The use of TT-activation algorithm is the first step of the entire care process ofthe trauma victim. This tool should guarantee the right balance between high sensitivity and high specificity (minimum over-triage rate with the possibility of higher under-triage). However, there is no sharing of these algorithms as they are inhomogeneous in the different realities; for example, the definition of major trauma, of TT and of its composition is still uneven. CONCLUSION: This study measured the over and under-triage rate related to the TT activation in the ASST of Monza. It is therefore advisable to monitor those rates periodically, as possible indicators of quality of assistance and to pursue the mission of increasing efficiency as well as effectiveness.