Emergency Medicine International / 2020 / Article / Tab 2 / Review Article
Are Pediatric Triage Systems Reliable in the Emergency Department? Table 2 Studies on the agreement of pediatric triage scales in hospital triage.
Study name Sample size Raters number Scenario/Patient number Coefficient Triage scale Raters Patient Reliability method Statistics CO Reliability properties Allen et al. [3 ] 1503 167 9 0.25 ATS NN Scenario INTER Kw Australia NA A V V Baumann et al. [15 ] 2 ESI INTER Kw USA NA A V V 40 2 20 0.84 NN Actual patients 40 2 20 0.82 NE Actual patients 544 2 272 0.59 NE Scenario 544 2 272 0.42 NP Scenario 544 272 0.84 PE Scenario Bergeron et al. [16 ] 2145 39 55 0.453 CTAS NN Scenario INTER Kw Australia NA A V V 1320 24 55 0.419 PP Considine et al. [17 ] 1132 161 7 0.40 ATS NN Scenario INTER Kuw Australia NA A D V Crellin Johnston [18 ] 736 92 8 0.21 ATS NN Scenario INTER Kuw Australia NA A D V Durani et al. [19 ] 340 20 17 0.93 ESI NN Scenario INTER Kw USA NA A V V 660 20 33 0.92 NP 320 20 16 0.93 PP 340 20 17 0.67 ESI NN Scenario INTER Kw USA NA A D V 660 20 33 0.67 NP 320 20 16 0.68 PP Gravel et al. [20 ] 972 18 54 0.51 CTAS NN Scenario INTER Kuw Canada NA A D V Gravel et al. [21 ] 998 2 499 0.61 CTAS NE Actual patients INTER Kw Canada A A D V Gravel et al. [22 ] 2928 2 1464 0.74 CTAS NE Actual patients INTER Kw Canada A A V V 2928 2 1464 0.59 CTAS NE Actual patients INTER Kuw Canada A A D V Green et al. [23 ] 200 2 100 0.92 ESI NN Actual patients INTER Kuw USA A A D V 300 3 100 0.78 NP Jafar-Rouhi et al. [24 ] 2208 16 1104 0.82 ESI NP Actual patients INTER Kuw Iran A A D V 240 12 20 0.84 ESI NN Scenario INTER Kuw Iran NA A D V Travers et al. [25 ] 6200 155 40 0.77 ESI NN Scenario INTER Kw USA NA A V V 996 2 498 0.57 ESI NE Actual patients INTER Kw USA A A V V Van Veen et al. [26 ] 860 43 20 0.83 MTS NN Scenario INTER Kw Netherlands NA A V V 396 2 198 0.65 MTS NE Scenario INTER Kw Netherlands NA A V V
NN = nurse-nurse; NP = nurse-physician; NE = nurse-expert; PP = physician-physician; PE = physician-expert; Kw = weighted kappa; Kuw = unweighted kappa; INTER = inter-rater reliability; CO = country of origin; VG = very good; A = adequate; D = doubtful; I = inadequate; NA = not applicable.
