Modification and Validation of a Complaint-Oriented Emergency Department Triage System: A Multicenter Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The objective of this study was to modify and validate an emergency department (ED) triage system with improved prediction performance on hospital outcomes by modifying the Korean Triage and Acuity Scale (KTAS).

Materials and methods

We performed a retrospective observational study at three academic universities in South Korea. The KTAS code, determined by the chief complaint and the selected modifier of a patient, was used to derive the Modified KTAS (MKTAS). We calculated the area under the receiver operating characteristics curve (AUC) and the test characteristics to evaluate the performance of MKTAS to predict hospital mortality, critical outcome, and admission.

Results

A total of 272402 and 128831 ED visits were used for the derivation and validation of M

SUBMITTER: Choi DH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8612858 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature