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The Modified South African Triage Scale System for Mortality Prediction in Resource-Constrained Emergency Surgical Centers: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Massaut J, Valles P, Ghismonde A, Jacques CJ, Louis LP, Zakir A, Van der Bergh R, Santiague L, Massenat RB, Edema N
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Abstract
The South African Triage Scale (SATS) was developed to facilitate patient triage in emergency departments (EDs) and is used by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in low-resource environments. The aim was to determine if SATS data, reason for admission, and patient age can be used to develop and validate a model predicting the in-hospital risk of death in emergency surgical centers and to compare the model's discriminative power with that of the four SATS categories alone.

Countries

South Africa

Subject Area

operational research

Languages

English
DOI
10.1186/s12913-017-2541-4
Published Date
23 Aug 2017
PubMed ID
28835247
Journal
BMC Health Services Research
Volume | Issue | Pages
Volume 17, Issue 1
Issue Date
2017-08-23
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