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

Table 2

Number of revised codes with category and of patients linked by each code.

	Number of codes	Number of patients linked with these codes
Code moved to the less urgent category
Red to orange	96	16,368
Red to yellow	20	1,373
Red to green	1	11
Orange to yellow	175	30,635
Orange to green	16	1,418
Yellow to green	63	9,220
Sum of rank-downs	371	59,024
Code moved to the more urgent category
Orange to red	22	3,478
Yellow to red	1	40
Green to red	0	0
Yellow to orange	8	795
Green to orange	0	0
Green to yellow	4	57
Sum of rank-ups	35	4370
New code
Red	35
Orange	35
Yellow	53
Green	5
Sum of new codes	128