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Table 4 Usage and performance of TTA criteria by category of prehospital care provider

From: Precision of field triage in patients brought to a trauma centre after introducing trauma team activation guidelines

 

Paramedic

Anaesthetist

TTA criteria

Total

Correct triage

Overtriage

Total

Correct triage

Overtriage

Anatomic

717 (25%)

372 (52%)

345 (48%)

475 (30%)

330 (70%)

145 (30%)

Physiologic

65 (2%)

33 (51%)

32 (49%)

11 (0%)

9 (82%)

2 (18%)

MOI

1 052 (37%)

163 (15%)

889 (85%)

456 (29%)

229 (50%)

227 (50%)

Multiple patients

6 (0%)

2 (33%)

4 (67%)

2 (0%)

1 (50%)

1 (50%)

Several criteria

354 (13%)

182 (51%)

172 (49%)

406 (25%)

322 (79%)

84 (21%)

No documented criteria

648 (23%)

216 (33%)

432 (67%)

248 (16%)

143 (58%)

105 (42%)

Total

2 842

968 (34%)

1 874 (66%)

1 598

1 034 (65%)

564 (35%)

  1. MOI: Mechanism of Injury