(A) Proportion of patients undertriaged as per the time of the day24 (B) Proportion of patients undertriaged as per rSATS (N=4135). (C) Injury characteristics as per the rSATS Triage category
| (A) Patients undertriaged as per the time of the day24 | |||||
| Morning | Afternoon | Evening | Night | P value | |
| n | 756 | 1576 | 1155 | 648 | |
| Undertriage | 511 (67.6) | 1185 (75.2) | 858 (74.3) | 497 (76.7) | <0.001 |
| (B) Patients undertriaged as per rSATS (N=4135) | ||||
| rSATS | rGreen | rYellow | rOrange | rRed |
| n | 1084 | 2579 | 448 | 24 |
| rTEWS | 1084 (100) | 2513 (97.4) | 433 (96.7) | 19 (79.2) |
| rSATScd | 0 | 66 (2.6) | 15 (3.3) | 5 (20.8) |
| (C) Injury characteristics as per the rSATS Triage category | ||||||
| rSATS | rGreen | rYellow | rOrange | rRed | P value | |
| n | 1084 | 2579 | 448 | 24 | ||
| Amputation/crush injury | 0 (0.0) | 13 (0.5) | 1 (0.2) | 0 (0.0) | <0.001 | |
| Fracture/dislocation | 0 (0.0) | 243 (9.4) | 41 (9.2) | 1 (4.2) | ||
| Injury type | Others | 9 (0.8) | 36 (1.4) | 9 (2.0) | 5 (20.8) | |
| Open wound | 204 (18.8) | 575 (22.3) | 123 (27.5) | 8 (33.3) | ||
| Superficial injury | 635 (58.6) | 1074 (41.6) | 174 (38.8) | 5 (20.8) | ||
| No defined injury | 236 (21.8) | 638 (24.7) | 100 (22.3) | 5 (20.8) | ||
rSATS, retrospectively used South African Triage Score; rSATScd, rSATS clinical discriminators; TEWS, Triage Early Warning Score.