Table 3. General dominance statistics and relative importance rates for the Korean Triage and Acuity Scale and its variants.
| No. of levels | KTAS & its variants | General dominance statistic | Relative importance rate, % | P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | Median (IQR) | - | Median (IQR) | |||
| 5 | Original | 0.198 | 0.198 | 34.8 | 34.8 | 0.016 |
| 4 | 1 | 0.196 | 0.190 (0.185–0.195) | 34.6 | 31.8 (28.9–34.2) | |
| 2 | 0.184 | 28.3 | ||||
| 3 | 0.188 | 30.7 | ||||
| 4 | 0.192 | 33.0 | ||||
| 3 | 5 | 0.178 | 0.179 (0.172–0.187) | 26.6 | 26.4 (23.2–31.0) | |
| 6 | 0.186 | 30.4 | ||||
| 7 | 0.164 | 16.8 | ||||
| 8 | 0.191 | 32.8 | ||||
| 9 | 0.179 | 26.2 | ||||
| 10 | 0.175 | 25.3 | ||||
| 2 | 11 | 0.155 | 0.164 (0.149–0.173) | 13.0 | 18.7 (7.5–24.9) | |
| 12 | 0.173 | 24.3 | ||||
| 13 | 0.173 | 25.0 | ||||
| 14 | 0.147 | 5.7 | ||||
KTAS = Korean Triage and Acuity Scale, IQR = interquartile range.