Performance of the Manchester triage system in older emergency department patients: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Studies on the reliability of the MTS and its predictive power for hospitalisation and mortality in the older population have demonstrated mixed results. The objective is to evaluate the performance of the Manchester Triage System (MTS) in older patients (≥65 years) by assessing the predictive ability of the MTS for emergency department resource utilisation, emergency department length of stay (ED-LOS), hospitalisation, and in-hospital mortality rate. The secondary goal was to evaluate the performance of the MTS in older surgical versus medical patients.

Methods

A retrospective cohort study was conducted of all emergency department visits by patients ≥65 years between 01 and 09-2011 and 31-08-2012. Performance of the MTS was assessed by comparing the association o

SUBMITTER: Brouns SHA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6322327 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature