Application practice of triage criteria of Hospital Emergency Department Standardization Process in clinical emergency work / 重庆医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the clinical application of the emergency triage criteria in the Hospital Emergency De‐partment Standardization Process by comparing it with the 5 level national triage system (5L NTS) .Methods Totally 984 patients visiting the emergency department of the Wushan County People′s Hospital from January 1 to January 31 ,2015 were chosen to con‐duct the evaluation of 4‐grade classification standard triage with 5L NTS as the control evaluation criteria .The error rate ,evaluation time and degree of difficulty or ease were compared between the two criteria .Results The error rate of 4‐grade triage standard was 4 .7% ,which of 5L NTS was 3 .6% ,the difference was not statistically significant (χ2 =1 .220 ,P=0 .269) .The triage time had sta‐tistical difference between the two criteria (t= -2 .291 ,P=0 .04) ,while the degree of difficulty or ease in using criteria had no sta‐tistical difference(χ2 =1 .143 ,P=0 .285) .Conclusion The 4‐grade triage criteria recommended by the Hospital Emergency Depart‐ment Standardization Process has no obvious differences in the aspects of triage error rate ,degree of difficulty or ease in use com‐pared with the widely recognized 5L NTS in the world ,and has the clinical promotion value .