Emergency Department Manchester Triage System

The worldwide disseminated triage systems are the australian triage scale the canadian emergency department triage scale and the manchester triage system mts.

Emergency department manchester triage system. 3 introduced in 1996 in the uk the mts was developed by a group of emergency care experts. The application of heart score showed that most patients were in low risk category 563. The objective is to evaluate the performance of the manchester triage system mts in older patients 65 years by assessing the predictive ability of the mts for emergency department resource utilisation emergency department length of stay ed los hospitalisation and in hospital mortality rate. The six week incidence of mace in each category was 2 156 and 769 p 0001.

Emergency department nurses performed a short assessment and triaged patients using the manchester triage system. 38 p 0006. The objectives of the mts are to define a safe wait time for medical attention. Several countries have introduced triage systems and the most commonly used include the australian triage scale canadian emergency department triage and acuity scale manchester triage system mts and emergency severity index.

5 7 in 1997 the mts was created in manchester united kingdom uk by the manchester triage group. Triage is a process that is critical to the effective management of modern emergency departments. Systems are intended to ensure care is dened according to patient need and in a timely manner. The studys purpose was to determine whether the manchester triage system mts second version is a useful instrument for.

Triage is a system of clinical risk management employed in emergency departments worldwide to manage patient ow safely when clinical need exceeds capacity. Triage systems aim not only to ensure clinical justice for the patient but also to provide an effective tool for departmental organisation monitoring and evaluation. The system is an algorithm based on flowcharts and consists of 52 flowchart diagrams 49 suitable for children that are specific for the patients presenting problem. The ttt is the time interval between arrival at the ed to initiation of therapeutic interventions.

6 the mts is an important tool that is used to ensure patient safety by determining the wait time suitable for every patient who comes to the ed. According to manchester triage system chest pain patients stratified with red or orange priority had a higher incidence of acs 165 vs. The manchester triage system mts is the most widely used triage system in the uk europe and australia with tens of millions of patients being processed through hospital emergency departments. 2 all of these are five level scales based on the work of fitzgerald.