Citation

Talbert S, Talbert DA. AMIA Annu. Symp. Proc. 2003; ePub(ePub): 1025.

Affiliation

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, American Medical Informatics Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

14728528

PMCID

PMC1480243

Abstract

Inappropriate triage following acute injury may result in misallocation of specialized health resources, increased health care costs, reduced or delayed access to care, and increased death and disability. Although triage criteria have been developed, they vary widely, and inappropriate triage rates are high (50% - 85%). The purpose of this project was to evaluate the ability of decision tree induction to predict need for specialized trauma resources in acutely injured persons. We considered any person who was admitted to the trauma center's ICU or died prior to being admitted to the ICU as needing specialized trauma resources.

Language: en