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Christian Nickel

Emergency Department, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland
Verified email at usb.ch
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The role of copeptin as a diagnostic and prognostic biomarker for risk stratification in the emergency department

CH Nickel, R Bingisser, NG Morgenthaler - BMC medicine, 2012 - Springer
The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis is activated in response to stress. One of the activated
hypothalamic hormones is arginine vasopressin, a hormone involved in hemodynamics …

At risk of undertriage? Testing the performance and accuracy of the emergency severity index in older emergency department patients

…, A Frauchiger, K Delport, R Bingisser, CH Nickel - Annals of emergency …, 2012 - Elsevier
STUDY OBJECTIVE: We test predictive validity, interrater reliability, and diagnostic accuracy
of the Emergency Severity Index in older emergency department (ED) patients and identify …

Patients presenting to the emergency department with non‐specific complaints: the Basel Non‐specific Complaints (BANC) study

M Nemec, MT Koller, CH Nickel, S Maile… - Academic …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives: Patient management in emergency departments (EDs) is often based on management
protocols developed for specific complaints like dyspnea, chest pain, or syncope. To …

Outcome of applying the ESC 0/1-hour algorithm in patients with suspected myocardial infarction

…, J Boeddinghaus, B Baumgartner, CH Nickel… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - jacc.org
Background : The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) recommends the 0/1-h algorithm
for rapid triage of patients with suspected non–ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (MI…

Validation of the clinical frailty scale for prediction of thirty-day mortality in the emergency department

…, CR Carpenter, R Bingisser, CH Nickel - Annals of emergency …, 2020 - Elsevier
Study objective We validate the Clinical Frailty Scale by examining its independent predictive
validity for 30-day mortality, ICU admission, and hospitalization and by determining its …

Transporting clinical tools to new settings: cultural adaptation and validation of the Emergency Severity Index in German

FF Grossmann, CH Nickel, M Christ… - Annals of emergency …, 2011 - Elsevier
STUDY OBJECTIVE:: To date, no German triage tool with proven reliability and validity exists.
The goal of this project is to translate and culturally adapt the Emergency Severity Index (…

Drug-related emergency department visits by elderly patients presenting with non-specific complaints

CH Nickel, JM Ruedinger, AS Messmer, S Maile… - Scandinavian journal of …, 2013 - Springer
Background Since drug-related emergency department (ED) visits are common among older
adults, the objectives of our study were to identify the frequency of drug-related problems (…

Epidemiology of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 emergence amidst community-acquired respiratory viruses

…, R Bingisser, CH Nickel, H Pargger… - The Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in
China as the cause of coronavirus disease 2019 in December 2019 and reached Europe by …

Nurses' accuracy and self-perceived ability using the Emergency Severity Index triage tool: a cross-sectional study in four Swiss hospitals

…, K Denhaerynck, R Schwendimann, CH Nickel - Scandinavian journal of …, 2015 - Springer
Background The Emergency Severity Index (ESI) is an English language emergency
department patient triage tool. After translation, it has been adapted for use to triage patients in …

Reproductive number of the COVID-19 epidemic in Switzerland with a focus on the Cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft

…, HH Hirsch, S Bassetti, CH Nickel… - Swiss medical …, 2020 - research-collection.ethz.ch
… , Egli Adriank, Hirsch Hans H.kl, Bassetti Stefanokl, Nickel Christian H.k, Rentsch Katharina
… Further, we thank Christian Althaus and an anonymous reviewer for very helpful comments. …