Weaknesses of the Manchester Triage System (MTS) regarding priority levels in emergency patients with septic illness
| (a) | Sensitivity and specificity of MTS in patients with sepsis, severe sepsis and severe sepsis with circulation dysfunction are moderate to adequate. |
| (b) | There are no cut-off values for the two discriminators RR and BP in MTS. |
| (c) | Discriminators for body temperature and HR are not congruent with the SIRS parameter values of the sepsis guidelines. |
| (d) | MTS presentational flow charts like ‘limb problem’ consider SIRS criterions insufficiently. |
| (e) | Body temperature is included in less than half of the MTS 50 presentational flow charts. |
| (f) | HR is included in only eight presentational flow charts. |