• Emerg Med Australas · Oct 2022

    Observational Study

    Emergency department triage and COVID-19: Performance of the Interagency Integrated Triage Tool during a pandemic surge in Papua New Guinea.

    • Rob Mitchell, Carl Kingston, Rayleen Tefatu, Sarah Bornstein, Mangu Kendino, Duncan Sengiromo, Jasper Pole, Sylvia Kuk, Betty Josaiah, Leigh Elton, Colin Banks, Sarah Körver, Peter Cameron, and Gerard O'Reilly.
    • Emergency and Trauma Centre, Alfred Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
    • Emerg Med Australas. 2022 Oct 1; 34 (5): 822-824.

    ObjectiveTo determine the sensitivity of the Interagency Integrated Triage Tool to identify severe and critical illness among adult patients with COVID-19.MethodsA retrospective observational study conducted at Port Moresby General Hospital ED during a three-month Delta surge.ResultsAmong 387 eligible patients with COVID-19, 63 were diagnosed with severe or critical illness. Forty-seven were allocated a high acuity triage category, equating to a sensitivity of 74.6% (95% CI 62.1-84.7) and a negative predictive value of 92.7% (95% CI 88.4-95.8).ConclusionIn a resource-constrained context, the tool demonstrated reasonable sensitivity to detect severe and critical COVID-19, comparable with its reported performance for other urgent conditions.© 2022 The Authors. Emergency Medicine Australasia published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.

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