Table 4.

Effect of nurse experience on inter-rater reliability of the SATS

Study site	Nurses agreeing to participate (n)	Mean years of experience	Nurses with <5 years of experience		Nurses with ≥5 years of experience
			n	ICC	n	ICC
KTC (Afghanistan)	19	6.6	11	0.53 (0.38–0.68)	9	0.67 (0.54–0.79)
ASB (Afghanistan)	8*	7.1	5	0.46 (0.29–0.64)	3	0.55 (0.35–0.74)
MT (Haiti)	20	6.3	11	0.53 (0.38–0.68)	9	0.64 (0.50–0.78)
TB (Haiti)	19	6.3	6	0.70 (0.57–0.83)	13	0.57 (0.43–0.71)

*Information available on eight out of the nine nurses.

ASB, Ahmad Shah Baba; ICC, intraclass correlation coefficient; KTC, Kunduz Trauma Centre; MT, Martissant Emergency Centre; SATS, South African Triage Scale; TB, Tabarre Surgical and Trauma Centre.