Implementation Handbook and DVDs
The Emergency Severity Index (ESI) is a five-level emergency department (ED)
triage algorithm that provides clinically relevant stratification of patients
into
five groups from 1 (most urgent) to 5 (least urgent) on the basis of acuity
and resource needs. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funded
initial work on the ESI.
A well-implemented ESI program will help hospital emergency departments rapidly identify patients in need of immediate attention, better identify patients who could safely and more efficiently be seen in a fast-track or urgent care center rather than the main ED, and more accurately determine thresholds for diversion of ambulance patients from the ED.
The set of two DVDs, entitled Emergency Severity Index, Version 4: Everything
You Need To Know, and the companion Emergency Severity Index, Version
4: Implementation Handbook, are essential resources for ensuring that your emergency department staff are well-trained in using ESI.
Select to download the Implementation Handbook.
ESI Training and Background
The set of two DVDs, entitled Emergency Severity Index, Version 4: Everything You Need To Know, and the companion Emergency Severity Index, Version 4: Implementation Handbook, are essential resources for ensuring that your emergency department staff are well-trained in using ESI.
The DVDs contain lectures and practice cases as well as written materials that can be viewed or downloaded from your PC or Mac®.
The Implementation Handbook, which can be used alone or with the DVDs, discusses the ESI and the research behind it. The handbook also includes information on:
- The history of triage.
- Frequently asked questions.
- Additional practice cases.
- Full-page as well as pocket-sized versions of the ESI Version 4 Algorithm that emergency department personnel can cut out and refer to as needed.
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Where To Obtain Copies of the DVDs and Handbook
The DVD set, Emergency Severity Index, Version 4: Everything You Need To Know,
(AHRQ Publication No. 05-0046-DVD) and print copies of the spiral-bound Implementation
Handbook (AHRQ Publication No. 05-0046-2) can be obtained by contacting the
AHRQ Publications Clearinghouse at 1-800-358-9295 or by E-mail at AHRQPubs@ahrq.hhs.gov.
You may request 1 free copy of both the DVD set and the Implementation
Handbook.
Where To Obtain Additional Information
For ESI Version 4 algorithm content and research-related questions, please E-mail: ESITriageTeam@hotmail.com.
For more information about the AHRQ program that supported the development of these products, please contact:
Michael O'Dell
Program Analyst, User Liaison Program
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
540 Gaither Road
Rockville, MD 20850
Phone: (301) 427-1228
Fax: (301) 427-1792
E-mail: michael.o'dell@ahrq.hhs.gov
AHRQ Publication No. 05-0046-2
Current as of May 2005
Internet Citation:
Gilboy N, Tanabe P, Travers DA, Rosenau AM, Eitel DR. Emergency Severity
Index, Version 4: Implementation Handbook. AHRQ Publication No. 05-0046-2, May 2005. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/esi/
540 Gaither Road Rockville, MD 20850