Journal article
Consistency of triage scores by presenting complaint pre‐ and post‐implementation of a real‐time electronic triage decision support tool
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: eCTAS is a real-time electronic decision-support tool designed to standardize the application of the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS). This study addresses the variability of CTAS score distributions across institutions pre- and post-eCTAS implementation.
METHODS: We used population-based administrative data from 2016-2018 from all emergency departments (EDs) that had implemented eCTAS for 9 months. Following a 3-month …
Authors
McLeod SL; Thompson C; Borgundvaag B; Thabane L; Ovens H; Scott S; Ahmed T; Grewal K; McCarron J; Filsinger B
Journal
Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, Vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 747–756
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
October 2020
DOI
10.1002/emp2.12062
ISSN
2688-1152