Two simple replacements for the Triage Early Warning Score to facilitate the South African Triage Scale in low resource settings

Background: The South African Triage Scale (SATS) requires the calculation of the Triage Early Warning Score (TEWS), which takes time and is prone to error. Aim: to derive and validate triage scores from a clinical database collected in a low-resource hospital in sub-Saharan Africa over four years a...

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Main Authors: Lucien Wasingya-Kasereka, Pauline Nabatanzi, Immaculate Nakitende, Joan Nabiryo, Teopista Namujwiga, John Kellett
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-03-01
Series:African Journal of Emergency Medicine
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211419X20301440