Evaluation of the Emergency Severity Index in US Emergency Departments for the Rate of Mistriage.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Accurate emergency department (ED) triage is essential to prioritize the most critically ill patients and distribute resources appropriately. The most used triage system in the US is the Emergency Severity Index (ESI).

Objectives

To derive and validate an algorithm to assess the rate of mistriage and to identify characteristics associated with mistriage.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study created operational definitions for each ESI level that use ED visit electronic health record data to classify encounters as undertriaged, overtriaged, or correctly triaged. These definitions were applied to a retrospective cohort to assess variation in triage accuracy by facility and patient characteristics in 21 EDs within the Kaiser Perman

SUBMITTER: Sax DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10024207 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature