Table 1 Cluster for tracer and non-tracer diagnoses (left column) and assigned diagnoses (right column).
Cluster of diagnoses | Included major diagnoses |
|---|---|
Tracer | |
Analgesia total | Trauma extremity, abdominal emergencies, back pain (including lumbar pain) |
Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) | Angina pectoris, non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction, ST-elevation myocardial infarction |
Arrhythmia | Bradycardia, tachycardia |
Bronchial obstruction | Chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD), asthma |
Hypertensive emergency | |
Other tracer diagnoses | Anaphylaxis, acute aortic syndrome, aspiration, cardiac decompensation, hypo-/hyperglycemia, intoxication, major trauma, pulmonary embolism, resuscitation, thermic and electrical injury, |
Seizure | Convulsion with and without fever |
Sepsis | Pneumonia, urosepsis, sepsis of unclear focus |
Stroke | |
Non-tracer | |
Syncope | Temporary loss of consciousness of any cause but a tracer diagnoses (ACS, arrhythmia, seizure, stroke, pulmonary embolism, major trauma, |
Psychiatric emergency | Dementia, agitation, depression, suicidality |
Respiratory infection | Any diagnose of airway infection (e.g. sinusitis) but not pneumonia and COPD |
Neurological emergency | Any other but stroke (peripheral neurologic disorders, neuropathy |
Gastro-intestinal infection | Diarrhea with and without fever, emesis, vomiting, nausea |
Other non-tracer diagnoses | The cluster contained all cases without available SOP that could not be categorized into any former described cluster. As reasons for consultation and suspected diagnoses diversify very much in this group (> 40), it was not reasonable to list every possible diagnoses |
