Intensive & critical care nursing : the official journal of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses
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Intensive Crit Care Nurs · Feb 2002
Utilizing TISS to differentiate between intensive care and high-dependency patients and to identify nursing skill requirements.
An identification system utilizing the therapeutic intervention scoring system (TISS) was developed to differentiate between intensive care and high-dependency unit (HDU) patients. ⋯ TISS is an effective triage tool for differentiating between ICU and HDU patients and identifying nursing skill requirements to care for the ICU and HDU patient groups.