… systems concentrate patients and resources at a few highvolume trauma centres. The …
Analysis of current practice suggests that clinicians both over-triage and under-triage.In doing so, …

… trauma patients to trauma centers (TCs) is essential. We sought to determine the percentage
of patients who were undertriaged within the Pennsylvania (PA) trauma … empirical Bayesian …

… the rate of over-triage without drastically increasing the rate of under-triage, we applied a …
First, the inclusion probabilities are calculated with modern Bayesian variable selection …

… Statistical analysis was performed to determine the sensitivity and specificity of the triage
tools in detecting the outcomes of interest; under triage (1-sensitivity) and over-triage (1-…

… admission to the hospital or emergency department. If the time frame is too short it may lead
to undertriage of the P1s, whereas too long timeframes may cause overtriage. Consensus in …

… Overtriage occurs when patients without severe injury … taken to high level trauma centres
whereas undertriage occurs when … trauma care are instead taken to non-trauma centres or low-…

… Thirty-eight adult and pediatric US trauma centers submitted data for 97,282 encounters.
Mixed models estimated the effects of overtriage and undertriage versus appropriate triage on …

… predictions, such as over-triage (false positive ratio) and under-triage (false negative ratio) …
under-triage levels prior to evaluating the predictive performance in clinical assessments. …

… and suggests a maximum undertriage rate (UTR) of less than 5% and an overtriage rate of
… with small volumes of trauma cases, we calculated a spatial empirical Bayesian smoothed …

… Bayesian model averaging is a type of Bayesian inference that can be used to determine …
to a trauma center can be adjusted. We report the estimated rates undertriage and overtriage …