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Utility of a severity scoring system in patient triage
M L Evers1, E E Ufondu, Z Hamid
1St. Francis Medical Center, Trenton, NJ 08629.
Abstract:
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.