Does the Canadian Emergency Department Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) correlate with admission to hospital from the emergency department?
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Description: Emergency departments (EDs) play an important role in health care delivery, with 4 million visits annually in Ontario. The Canadian Emergency Department Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) is a new triage tool which is used as a measure of patient acuity and is proposed to relate to ED outcome. Its attributes in Canada are not well described. Using one year of data from a community ED in Ontario, the proportion and characteristics of patients in each triage level, the relationship between CTAS level and admission to hospital, and factors associated with admission from multivariable modeling were described. Using univariate analysis, CTAS level, age, arrival by ambulance (EMS), lower socioeconomic status, and diagnosis were associated with admission. In the multivariable model for admission, age, sex, EMS, income, diagnosis, weekend and night visit, and CTAS were significant. In conclusion, increased acuity, as defined by CTAS level correlates significantly with admission to hospital.
Notes: Adviser:  L. J. Morrison.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2004.

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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 42-06, page: 2153.

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