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March 1, 2000Academic Emergency Medicine

Reliability and Validity of a New Five‐level Triage Instrument

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RWRichard C. WuerzBrigham and Women's HospitalLMLeslie W. MilneHarvard UniversityDEDavid EitelIntermountain Healthcare

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Implication

Validation study demonstrates reliable five-level patient stratification across resource and hospitalization intensities, indicating effective clinical triage utility.

Key Points

  • To evaluate the measurement validity and reliability of a novel five-level triage instrument within clinical practice settings.
  • Assessed the performance of a newly designed five-level triage instrument across clinical practice environments.
  • Evaluated the tool's capacity to categorize patients across distinct strata of hospitalization need and resource intensity.
  • The five-level triage instrument proved to be valid and reliable in the evaluated clinical settings.
  • The tool reproducibly stratified patients across five discrete levels ranging from very high to very low hospitalization and resource consumption.

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Wuerz et al. (2000) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69deb550499d77a496b0c8b0https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1553-2712.2000.tb01066.x
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