The association between urgency level and hospital admission, mortality and resource utilization in three emergency department triage systems: an observational multicenter study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Effective triage systems are crucial for prioritizing patients based on urgency and optimizing resource utilization. An ideal triage system is expected to have low resource utilization, hospitalization and mortality among patients classified at low urgency levels. Furthermore, it should exhibit an increase in the risk of hospitalization and mortality as urgency levels increase, ensuring the most critically ill patients receive priority care first. However, it is unclear which triage system performs best.

Objective

To compare the performance of the Manchester Triage System (MTS), the Emergency Severity Index (ESI), and the Netherlands Triage Standard (NTS) by investigating the association between urgency levels and resource utilization, hospitalization and in-hospi

SUBMITTER: van Wegen ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12044865 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature