Traditional literature review shows Australasian Triage Scale effectively categorizes patients, indicating its reliability and validity in emergency services.
In emergency services, nurses often encounter patients who come with various conditions and different levels of severity. Thus, the challenge faced by nurses is how to manage patients with emergency conditions quickly and accurately. The method used in this secondary research is a traditional literature review. Journal articles used in this secondary research are national and international publications with a range of years 2011-2024. Article searches through Google Scholar, Science Direct, Scopus, PubMed, Dimensions with the keywords "effectiveness", "Australasian Triage Scale", and "Emergency Unit" and after going through the inclusion and exclusion process, 10 articles were obtained. Based on several research articles on ATS, it can be concluded that: The Australasian Triage System (ATS) has moderate to good values in assessing reliability and validity as an instrument or measuring tool for categorizing patients in the emergency unit.
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