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Article: Validation of the Hong Kong Accident and Emergency Triage Guidelines
Title | Validation of the Hong Kong Accident and Emergency Triage Guidelines |
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Keywords | Triage Hospital Emergency service Validation studies |
Issue Date | 2013 |
Publisher | Hong Kong Academy of Medicine Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.hkmj.org/ |
Citation | Hong Kong Medical Journal, 2013, v. 19 n. 3, p. 198-202 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Objective To validate the Hong Kong Accident and Emergency Triage guidelines. Design Retrospective chart review. Setting The Accident and Emergency Department of a tertiary hospital in Hong Kong. Participants Patients who attended the Accident and Emergency Department on one day in February 2012. Main outcome measures The inter-rater reliability in two pairs of nurses grouped according to experience and validity as compared with an expert panel. Results Of the 100 patients recruited and triaged into levels 1 to 5, the weighted kappa coefficient (inter-rater reliability) for the two pairs of nurses was 0.699 and 0.717, respectively. The weighted kappa coefficient for validity was 0.766. When only patients in triage levels 3 and 4 were included, the weighted kappa coefficient for reliability dropped to 0.632 and 0.585, respectively. The weighted kappa coefficient for validity also decreased to 0.558. Conclusions The overall inter-rater reliability and validity of the Guidelines appeared acceptable. Further revision of the Guidelines on triaging patients to levels 3 or 4 is probably necessary. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/210102 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 3.1 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.261 |
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dc.contributor.author | Fan, MMW | - |
dc.contributor.author | Leung, LP | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-22T06:06:38Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-05-22T06:06:38Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Hong Kong Medical Journal, 2013, v. 19 n. 3, p. 198-202 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1024-2708 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/210102 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Objective To validate the Hong Kong Accident and Emergency Triage guidelines. Design Retrospective chart review. Setting The Accident and Emergency Department of a tertiary hospital in Hong Kong. Participants Patients who attended the Accident and Emergency Department on one day in February 2012. Main outcome measures The inter-rater reliability in two pairs of nurses grouped according to experience and validity as compared with an expert panel. Results Of the 100 patients recruited and triaged into levels 1 to 5, the weighted kappa coefficient (inter-rater reliability) for the two pairs of nurses was 0.699 and 0.717, respectively. The weighted kappa coefficient for validity was 0.766. When only patients in triage levels 3 and 4 were included, the weighted kappa coefficient for reliability dropped to 0.632 and 0.585, respectively. The weighted kappa coefficient for validity also decreased to 0.558. Conclusions The overall inter-rater reliability and validity of the Guidelines appeared acceptable. Further revision of the Guidelines on triaging patients to levels 3 or 4 is probably necessary. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Hong Kong Academy of Medicine Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.hkmj.org/ | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Hong Kong Medical Journal | - |
dc.rights | Hong Kong Medical Journal. Copyright © Hong Kong Academy of Medicine Press. | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | Triage | - |
dc.subject | Hospital | - |
dc.subject | Emergency service | - |
dc.subject | Validation studies | - |
dc.title | Validation of the Hong Kong Accident and Emergency Triage Guidelines | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Leung, LP: leunglp@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Leung, LP=rp02032 | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.12809/hkmj133900 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 23568939 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84878826977 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 281719 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 19 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 3 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 198 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 202 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000320295600002 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Hong Kong | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1024-2708 | - |