Revision of the Protocol of the Telephone Triage System in Tokyo, Japan

Table 1

Basic data on case numbers linked with the code for each triage category in #7119.

Category (amount of codes)	Red (527)	Orange (346)	Yellow (255)	Green (199)	Total (1,327)
Total number of patients	71,389	61,179	41,050	22,501	196,119
Ranked down by nurses (%)	19,939 (27.9)	11,340 (18.5)	3,186 (7.8)	2,006 (8.9)	36,471 (18.6)
Transfer to dispatchers	29,039 (40.7)	1,347 (2.2)	157 (0.4)	43 (0.2)	30,556 (15.6)
Outcome at arrival to the hospital
Dead	8	0	0	0	8
Lethal	65	0	0	0	65
Severe	412	7	1	0	420
Moderate	8,710	332	30	10	9,082
Mild	18,662	943	115	28	19,748
Patient refusal of transfer to the hospital	1,182	65	11	5	1,263