Emergency Severity Index (ESI)¶
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Emergency Severity Index (ESI): A Triage Tool for Emergency Departments.
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Primes¶
- Evaluative Rating
- In medical triage, the target is an arriving patient; the dimension is acuity; the scale is an ordered priority band (e.g., a five-level acuity scale); the rater is a triage clinician applying a protocol; the use is to order patients for treatment when capacity is scarce.
This sourceAHRQ. Documents the ESI, a five-level ordered acuity scale (Level 1 most urgent to Level 5 least urgent) applied by a triage clinician to order patients for treatment under scarce capacity.
- In medical triage, the target is an arriving patient; the dimension is acuity; the scale is an ordered priority band (e.g., a five-level acuity scale); the rater is a triage clinician applying a protocol; the use is to order patients for treatment when capacity is scarce.
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