Observational studyEmergency medicine Australasia : EMA2022
Emergency department triage and COVID-19: Performance of the Interagency Integrated Triage Tool during a pandemic surge in Papua New Guinea.
Observational study in Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Effectiveness of a structured triage system in improving timeliness of emergency care in a resource-limited rural hospital in Uganda.International journal of emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Triage systems in low-resource emergency care settings.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2025Article
- Triage implementation in resource-limited emergency departments: sharing tools and experience from the Pacific region.International journal of emergency medicine · 2024Article
- Multimodal learning for emergency department triage implementation: experiences from Papua New Guinea during the COVID-19 pandemic.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine the sensitivity of the Interagency Integrated Triage Tool to identify severe and critical illness among adult patients with COVID-19.
methodsA retrospective observational study conducted at Port Moresby General Hospital ED during a three-month Delta surge.
resultsAmong 387 eligible patients with COVID-19, 63 were diagnosed with severe or critical illness. Forty-seven were allocated a high acuity triage category, equating to a sensitivity of 74.6% (95% CI 62.1-84.7) and a negative predictive value of 92.7% (95% CI 88.4-95.8).
conclusionIn a resource-constrained context, the tool demonstrated reasonable sensitivity to detect severe and critical COVID-19, comparable with its reported performance for other urgent conditions.
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