The Suitability of the CDC Field Triage for Korean Trauma CareThe Suitability of the CDC Field Triage for Korean Trauma Care
- Other Titles
- The Suitability of the CDC Field Triage for Korean Trauma Care
- Authors
- Kang Kook Choi; Myung Jin Jang; Min A Lee; Gil Jae Lee; Byungchul Yoo; Youngeun Park; Jungnam Lee
- Issue Date
- Mar-2020
- Publisher
- 대한외상학회
- Keywords
- Wounds and injuries; Triage; Injury severity score; Emergency medical services; Health resources
- Citation
- 대한외상학회지, v.33, no.1, pp.13 - 17
- Journal Title
- 대한외상학회지
- Volume
- 33
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 13
- End Page
- 17
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gachon/handle/2020.sw.gachon/27304
- ISSN
- 1738-8767
- Abstract
- Purpose: Accurate and appropriate prehospital field triage is essential for a trauma system. The Korean trauma system (established in 2014) uses the trauma field triage algorithm of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This study evaluated the suitability of the CDC field triage criteria for major trauma cases (injury severity score >15) in Korea.
Methods: This retrospective cohort study evaluated trauma patients who presented at the authors’ regional trauma center from January 1 to May 7, 2017. The undertriage and overtriage rates of each CDC field triage step were calculated. Receiver operating characteristic curves were constructed, and the area under the curve (AUC) was evaluated for each step.
Results: Among the 1,009 enrolled patients, 168 (16.7%) had major trauma. The undertriage/overtriage rates of each step (steps I, II, III, and IV) of CDC field triage were 9.2%/47.4%, 6.3%/50.8%, 4.5%/59.4%, and 5.3%/78.9%, respectively. The AUC values of each CDC triage step were 0.722, 0.783, 0.791, and 0.615, respectively. The AUC values of the separate components of each step (physiologic criteria, anatomic criteria, mechanism-of-injury criteria, and special considerations) were 0.722, 0.648, 0.647, and 0.456, respectively.
Conclusions: The CDC field triage system is acceptable, but not ideal, for Korean trauma care. If we follow the protocol, it would be preferable to omit step IV. The Korean Triage and Acuity Scale may be a good indicator for in-hospital triage. However, a new triage protocol that is simple to estimate on-scene while having good performance should be developed.
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