Table 4.
Patients' color-coding categories and use of clinical discriminators based on their final triage status for patients who visited the adult Emergency Department at Debre Tabor Comprehensive Specialized Hospital.
| Final triage assessment |
Frequency (%) | Statistical test | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Improperly triaged (%) | Properly triaged(%) | ||||
| Color coding category | Red | 15 (71.4) | 6 (28.6) | 21(7.6) | P = 0.007 |
| Orange | 33 (91.7) | 3 (8.3) | 36 (12.9) | ||
| Yellow | 132 (93) | 10 (7) | 142 (51.1) | ||
| Green | 16 (94.1) | 1 (5.9) | 17 (6.1) | ||
| Not recorded | 61 (98.4) | 1 (1.6) | 62 (22.3) | ||
| Clinical discriminators | Used | 1 (16.7) | 5 (83.3) | 6 (2.2) | P = 0.000 |
| Not used | 256 (94.1) | 16 (5.9) | 272 (97.8) | ||