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. 2021 Mar 10;23(3):e24475. doi: 10.2196/24475

Table 2.

Mean triage accuracy of symptom checkers and participants.

Triage level Percent triage accuracy, mean (SD) 95% CI

All 15 SCsa Subset of 11 SCsb Participantsc
Emergency cases 80.6 (17.9) 79.8 (17.2) 67.5 (16.4) 64.1-70.8
Nonemergency cases 58.5 (29.1) 61.6 (27.8) 68.4 (13.8) 65.6-71.2
Self-care cases 30.6 (25.7) 41.8 (20.3) 46.7 (15.9) 43.4-49.8
Overall 58.0 (12.8) 61.6 (11.0) 60.9 (6.8) 59.5-62.3

aSC: symptom checker.

bFor the subset of 11 SCs, SCs never recommending self-care or always recommending emergency care by design were excluded.

cFor the participant sample, 95% CIs were calculated using bootstrapping.