Partners & Referring Physicians

Manchester-Triage-System

"The initial assessment ensures that a high treatment urgency is reliably identified and that the affected patients are promptly referred to medical treatment."

Initial assessment

In the Manchester Triage System (MTS), the order of treatment is based on medical urgency. Upon your arrival, you will be assessed by specially trained, qualified nursing staff who will ask about your complaints and symptoms. Afterwards, the urgency of your treatment will be determined according to international guidelines. Depending on the urgency level — from 1 (immediate) to 5 (non-urgent) — you will either be taken directly to the treatment area or asked to wait in the waiting area.

The initial assessment describes the tool used to estimate the urgency of treatment, with which a qualified treatment order is established in the emergency department. It is a validated and proven nursing system that completely omits diagnoses. The treatment urgency is determined based on the current symptoms presented by the patient (symptom-oriented system).

The LKH-University Hospital Graz is the Austrian reference hospital for the MTS and is the first and so far only training center for the initial assessment according to the Manchester Triage System in Austria.

Course

Basic Course

In the basic course, you will receive information about the initial assessment according to the Manchester Triage System. You will learn the structured evaluation of treatment urgency in emergency patients and will be able to independently perform the initial assessment according to MTS.

To inquire about a course date

Ab 2025

Registration Form: Basic Course (PDF German)
Schedule for In-House Training (PDF German)
Schedule for Training Sessions at LKH-University Hospital Graz (PDF German)

Refresher course

From 2025

Information and Schedule (PDF German)

Information session

In this event, you will receive a general overview of the initial assessment according to the Manchester Triage System in the emergency department.

To request an appointment

All in-house course dates for 2025 are fully booked except for one appointment in December!
Course requests for 2026 can be submitted starting immediately.

For courses outside the LKH-Univ. Klinikum Graz, higher fees may apply for external (non-in-house) participants. The exact course fees can be requested from the respective organizer (for in-house courses)!
If you have any questions, please contact stefan.kovacevic@uniklinikum.kages.at.

If the situation requires, an online event via Webex Meetings can be offered or held to secure the course date.

Cancellation of Course Participation

  • Up to 3 weeks before the course: free of charge
  • Up to 2 weeks before the course: 25% of the course fee (excluding book costs)
  • Up to 1 week before the course: 50% of the course fee (excluding book costs)
  • Up to 3 days before the course: 75% of the course fee (excluding book costs)

Participants who are unable to attend can, of course, be replaced by others. No additional costs will be incurred for this. In case of no-show without notice for the basic course, the full course fee (excluding book costs) must be paid.

These conditions apply to all external participants of in-house MTS basic courses and to all external participants of MTS basic courses at the LKH-University Hospital Graz.

Further information

1. Platz beim Pflege Management Award 2015 im Bereich Akutpflege
mit dem Projekt:

"ErsteinschÀtzung nach dem MTS © in der Notaufnahme
- ein Instrument der Pflege zur Erhöhung der Patientensicherheit
am LKH - Univ. Klinikum Graz und in ganz Österreich"

7. Nationales Treffen (03.–04. November 2023)

6. Nationales Treffen (08.–09. November 2019)

5. Nationales Treffen (20.–21. Oktober 2017)

4. Nationales Treffen (09.–10. Oktober 2015)

3. Nationales Treffen

Contact

University Center for Acute Care Medicine
Auenbruggerplatz 29, 8036 Graz

Phone: +43 316 385-20186
Email: stefan.kovacevic@uniklinikum.kages.at