Utility of a severity scoring system in patient triage.
This study shows that a critical care severity scale cannot be used to decide which patients at admission, in a community teaching hospital, should go to critical care. Further research is required to validate the conclusion that a severity score cannot be used as a triage tool.
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St. Francis Medical Center, Trenton, NJ 08629.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003422:Critical Care; D005260:Female; D006742:Hospital Bed Capacity; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009515:New Jersey; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014218:Triage / Q000379:methods*