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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Oct 29.
Published in final edited form as: J Surg Res. 2020 Mar 10;251:195–201. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2019.11.011

Table 2   .

NEI-6 associated with mortality.

Undertriage death
Early (<48 h) Mortality
In-hospital mortality
Late (>60 h) mortality
OR (95% CI) P OR (95% CI) P OR (95% CI) P OR (95% CI) P
TTM 1.96 (1.79-2.14) <0.001 19.1 (16.7-21.9) <0.001 10.3 (9.5-11.2) <0.001 6.2 (5.6-6.8) <0.001

NEI-6 3.72 (3.36-4.11) <0.001 31.0 (27.1-35.3) <0.001 15.7 (14.5-17.0) <0.001 8.5 (7.7-9.4) <0.001

NFTI 3.15 (2.9-3.4) <0.001 16.1 (14.2-18.4)* <0.001 10.9 (10.1-11.8)* <0.001 7.3 (6.6-28.1) <0.001

STAT 2.07 (1.9-2.24) <0.001 21.7 (18.3-25.7)* <0.001 11.2 (10.2-12.3)* <0.001 7.1 (6.4-7.9) <0.001

STAT = secondary triage assessment tool; NFTI = need for trauma intervention; NEI-6 = need for an emergent intervention within 6 h; TTM = trauma triage matrix; CI = confidence interval; OR = odds ratio.

*

Mortality < 60, an element of NFTI excluded from analysis.