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Table 1 Patient characteristics of EMS RETTS-p triaged patients vs. No triage colour

From: The performance of the EMS triage (RETTS-p) and the agreement between the field assessment and final hospital diagnosis: a prospective observational study among children < 16 years

 

EMS triage colour

EMS No triage colour

Total

P1

n = 390

n = 64

n = 454

 

Age – months (Q1,Q3)

 Median

59 (20, 141)

23 (14, 50)

50 (18, 136)

< 0.001

Sex – n (%)

0.006

 Male

213 (54.6)

47 (73.4)

260 (57.3)

 Female

177 (45.4)

17 (26.6)

194 (42.7)

PED admission time of day – n (%)

0.468

 08:00–16:00

137 (35.1)

20 (31.3)

157 (34.6)

 16:00–24:00

187 (47.9)

36 (56.3)

223 (49.1)

 24:00–08:00

66 (16.9)

8 (12.5)

74 (16.3)

PED flow time – hh:mm (25th, 75th percentile)2 (4,2)3

 Median

2:45 (1:46, 4:11)

2:18 (1:38, 3:39)

2:41 (1:45, 4:02)

0.086

Time to physician – hh:mm (25th, 75th percentile)4 (28,6)3

 Median

1:33 (0:53, 2:38)

1:11 (0:43, 1:43)

1:28 (0:51, 2:31)

0.016

Medical history – n (%)5

 No prior medical history

254 (64.9)

43 (67.2)

297 (65.4)

0.779

 Congenital disability

25 (6.4)

5 (7.8)

30 (6.6)

0.595

 Asthma, common cold with asthma

23 (5.9)

4 (6.3)

27 (5.9)

0.782

 Febrile non-epileptic convulsions, absences

23 (5.9)

1 (1.6)

24 (5.3)

0.227

 Allergies

18 (4.6)

0 (0.0)

18 (4.0)

0.090

PED speciality

0.582

 Medical

265 (67.9)

45 (70.3)

310 (68.3)

 Surgical

83 (21.3)

15 (23.4)

98 (21.6)

 Orthopaedics

42 (10.8)

4 (6.3)

46 (10.1)

Management PED – n (%)

0.885

 Discharged with no intervention

122 (31.3)

22 (34.4)

144 (31.7)

 Discharged with intervention by physician

162 (41.5)

25 (39.1)

187 (41.2)

 Admitted to inpatient care

106 (27.2)

17 (26.6)

123 (27.1)

Days of inpatient care – n (Q1, Q3)6

 Median

2 (1,3)

4 (2,13)

2 (1,4)

0.019

Patients with emergent condition – n (%)7

 Vital signs with increased mortality risk > 2.5 times (1, 2)3

42 (10.8)

8 (12.5)

50 (11.0)

0.688

 Potentially life-threatening diagnosis

26 (6.7)

5 (7.8)

31 (6.8)

0.788

 Mortality 30 days – n (%)

2 (0.7)

3 (4.7)

5 (1.1)

0.022

  1. 1P-value calculated on group’s triage colour and no colour at 0.01 level
  2. 2Median time from PED admission to discharge or admission to inpatient care
  3. 3Missing patients in EMS triage colour group and EMS no triage colour respectively
  4. 4Elapsed median time from patient call to physician evaluation
  5. 5The five most common medical histories, a patient can have more than one condition
  6. 6Median days of inpatient care among those patients who were admitted
  7. 7Four patients belong to both vital sign and diagnosis group
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