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Prehospital care
The cape triage score: a new triage system South Africa. Proposal from the cape triage group
  1. S B Gottschalk,
  2. D Wood,
  3. S DeVries,
  4. L A Wallis,
  5. S Bruijns,
  6. On behalf of the Cape Triage Group
  1. Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr Lee A Wallis
 PO Box 901, Wellington, 7654, South Africa; leewallis{at}bvr.co.za

Abstract

The Cape Triage Group (CTG) convened with the intention of producing a triage system for the Western Cape, and eventually South Africa. The group includes in-hospital and prehospital staff from varied backgrounds. The CTG triage protocol is termed the Cape Triage Score (CTG), and has been developed by a multi-disciplinary panel, through best available evidence and expert opinion. The CTS has been validated in several studies, and was launched across the Western Cape on 1 January 2006.

The CTG would value feedback from readers of this journal, as part of the ongoing monitoring and evaluation process.

  • Prehospital
  • triage

https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.2005.028332

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    • Competing interests: none declared