Fig 1.
Overview of Dutch triage guidelines [15, 16]a,b.
CFS = clinical frailty scale; ECLS = extra corporeal life support; ICU = intensive care unit a. Each subsequent step is only relevant for a given triage situation if, after the previous step(s), there are still more patients in need of ICU admission than there are beds. E.g. if, at step 4, two patients both have the same chance of survival (greater than potential other patients) they will both be taken into consideration at step 5, etc. b. In addition to phase three exclusion criteria, regional crisis teams can decide that elective surgeries should be cancelled when the number of regional ICU beds starts to become constrained. C. For patients ≥ 65 years old; for adult patients <65 this criterion may only be used if this is relevant for the prognosis in the ICU (i.e. medical characteristics/disabilities that do not impact prognosis should not be taken into account).
Table 1.
Characteristics of the participating hospitals.
Table 2.
Code and brief description of the cases.
Table 3.
Characteristics of the participants.
Table 4.
Triage decisions per teama.
Table 5.
Overview of categories and factors.