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“MedTRIS” (Medical Triage and Registration Informatics System): A Web-based Client Server System for the Registration of Patients Being Treated in First Aid Posts at Public Events and Mass Gatherings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 August 2016

Stefan Gogaert ,
Axel Vande veegaete ,
Annelies Scholliers  and
Philippe Vandekerckhove
Stefan Gogaert
Affiliation:
Belgian Red Cross-Flanders, Mechelen, Belgium
Axel Vande veegaete*
Affiliation:
Belgian Red Cross-Flanders, Mechelen, Belgium
Annelies Scholliers
Affiliation:
Belgian Red Cross-Flanders, Mechelen, Belgium Department of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Philippe Vandekerckhove
Affiliation:
Belgian Red Cross-Flanders, Mechelen, Belgium Faculty of Medicine, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
*
Correspondence: Axel Vande veegaete, MS Motstraat 40 B-2800 Mechelen, Belgium E-mail: Axel.vandeveegaete@rodekruis.be
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Abstract

First aid (FA) services are provisioned on-site as a preventive measure at most public events. In Flanders, Belgium, the Belgian Red Cross-Flanders (BRCF) is the major provider of these FA services with volunteers being deployed at approximately 10,000 public events annually. The BRCF has systematically registered information on the patients being treated in FA posts at major events and mass gatherings during the last 10 years. This information has been collected in a web-based client server system called “MedTRIS” (Medical Triage and Registration Informatics System). MedTRIS contains data on more than 200,000 patients at 335 mass events. This report describes the MedTRIS architecture, the data collected, and how the system operates in the field. This database consolidates different types of information with regards to FA interventions in a standardized way for a variety of public events. MedTRIS allows close monitoring in “real time” of the situation at mass gatherings and immediate intervention, when necessary; allows more accurate prediction of resources needed; allows to validate conceptual and predictive models for medical resources at (mass) public events; and can contribute to the definition of a standardized minimum data set (MDS) for mass-gathering health research and evaluation.

GogaertS, Vande veegaeteA, ScholliersA, VandekerckhoveP. “MedTRIS” (Medical Triage and Registration Informatics System): A Web-based Client Server System for the Registration of Patients Being Treated in First Aid Posts at Public Events and Mass Gatherings. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2016;31(5):557–562.

Keywords

data collectionfirst aidmass gatheringpatient registration system
Type
Special Reports
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 31 , Issue 5 , October 2016 , pp. 557 - 562
Copyright
© World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2016 

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