Triage for resource-limited emergency care:why it matters

作     者：Rob Mitchell Rob Mitchell

作者机构：Emergency and Trauma CentreAlfred HealthMelbourneAustralia School of Public Health and Preventive MedicineMonash UniversityMelbourneAustralia 

出 版 物：《Emergency and Critical Care Medicine》 (急危重症医学（英文）)

年 卷 期：2023年第3卷第4期

页      面：139-141页

学科分类：1011[医学-护理学（可授医学、理学学位）] 10[医学] 

基　　金：National Health and Medical Research Council  NHMRC 

主　　题：Emergency care Triage Low-and middle-income country 

摘      要：Triage aims to identify and prioritize patients with time-sensitive health care *** process is particularly important when demand for emergency care exceeds the available resources.A small number of triage instruments have been purpose designed for low-and middle-income *** recently,the World Health Organization,in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières,has released the Interagency Integrated Triage Tool(IITT).Despite endorsement by leading global health agencies,little has been published regarding the IITT’s validity and *** triage is widely regarded as a critical tool for organizing emergency care services,many instruments have demonstrated suboptimal sensitivity for the detection of time-critical *** is a pressing need therefore to assess the performance of the IITT relative to other *** efforts to implement and evaluate the tool in the Western Pacific region will provide valuable insights into its validity,reliability and acceptability.