Impact of the ABCDE triage in primary care emergency department on the number of patient visits to different parts of the health care system in Espoo City

Table 3 Comparison of 5 Level Triage scales [ ABCDE, the Emergency Severity Index (ESI),), the Manchester Triage System (MTS), the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) and the Australasian Triage Scale (ATS) ]

	Primary Health	Hospital ED	Validity and Reliabity	Vital signs	Acuity-based	Resource- based
	Care ED		Research
ABCDE	X	-	-	-	X	-
ESI	-	X	X	X	X	X
MTS	-	X	X	X	X	-
CTAS	-	X	X	X	X	-
ATS	-	X	X	X	X	-

ISSN: 1471-227X