Are Pediatric Triage Systems Reliable in the Emergency Department?
Table 1
Quality criteria for evaluated measurement properties.
Measurement property
Definition
Data management and interpretation
Reliability
Inter-rater reliability
It is the degree of agreement among raters
The agreement was defined as poor (κ = 0.00–0.20), fair (κ = 0.21–0.40), moderate (κ = 0.41–0.60), substantial (κ = 0.61–0.80), or almost perfect (κ = 0.81–1.00) [9] 1 Were patients stable in the interim period on the construct to be measured? 2 Were the test conditions similar for the measurements? For example, type of administration, environment, and instructions 3 For ordinal scores: was a weighted kappa calculated? 4 Were there any other important flaws in the design or statistical methods of the study?
Design requirements
Statistical methods
Other
Interpretability
Degree to which qualitative or clinical meaning can be assigned to the PTS scores or change in scores
Narrative synthesis
Feasibility
Time to complete
Reported time taken for participants to complete the PTS
