Table 2.

Frequencies of Re-triage Status by Trauma Funding Status

	Trauma Funding Status^a

	Without Trauma Funding (N=99071)	With Trauma Funding (N=142685)	p-value

Re-Triage Status
Field Triage	94010 (94.9%)	129570 (90.8%)	<0.0001 ^f
Appropriate Triage^b	54694 (58.2%)	57698 (44.5%)
Under-Triage^c	39316 (41.8%)	71872 (55.5%)
Re-Triage	1806 (1.8%)	5301 (3.7%)	<0.0001 ^f
Optimal^d	1666 (92.3%)	4055 (76.5%)
Sub-optimal^e	140 (7.8%)	1246 (23.5%)
Other	3255 (3.3%)	7814 (5.5%)

^a.

Trauma Funding Status was determined by the absence ($0.00) or presence (>$0.00) of per capita state trauma funding in the state that the patient was hospitalized in.

^b.

Patients presenting to an emergency department at or directly admitted to a Level I or II trauma center, with no subsequent transfer, were defined as Appropriate Triage on the field.

^c.

Patients presenting to an emergency department at or directly admitted to a Level III, IV, or non-trauma center, with no subsequent transfer, were defined as Under-Triage on the field.

^d.

Patients emergently transferred from any emergency department to a Level I or II trauma center were defined as Optimal Re-Triage.

^e.

Patients emergently transferred from any emergency department to a Level III, IV, or non-trauma center were defined as Sub-optimal Re-Triage.

^f.

P-value obtained using a Pearson’s chi-square test.