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Validation of the five-tier Taiwan Triage and Acuity Scale for prehospital use by Emergency Medical Technicians

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  • Chip-Jin Ng Department of Emergency Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Cheng-Yu Chien Department of Emergency Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan Department of Emergency Medicine, Ton-Yen General Hospital, Zhupei, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Julian Chen-June Seak Department of Emergency Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Shang-Li Tsai Department of Emergency Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan Department of Emergency Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Taipei Branch, Taipei, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Yi-Ming Weng Department of Emergency Medicine, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Chung-Hsien Chaou Department of Emergency Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Chan-Wei Kuo Department of Emergency Medicine, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jih-Chang Chen Department of Emergency Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan Department of Emergency Medicine, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kuang-Hung Hsu Department of Emergency Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan Laboratory for Epidemiology, Chang Gung University, Kwei-Shan, Taiwan Department of Urology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan Department of Health Care Management, and Healthy Aging Research Center, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan Research Center for Food and Cosmetic Safety, College of Human Ecology, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taoyuan, Taiwan Department of Safety, Health and Environmental Engineering, Ming Chi University of Technology, New Taipei City, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Jih-Chang Chen, Emergency Department Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare Tao-Yuan Taiwan; a9999999{at}ms3.hinet.net and Phd. Kuang-Hung Hsu, Department of Emergency Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan; khus{at}mail.cgu.edu.tw
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Ng C, Chien C, Seak JC, et al
Validation of the five-tier Taiwan Triage and Acuity Scale for prehospital use by Emergency Medical Technicians
Emergency Medicine Journal 2019;36:472-478.

Publication history

  • Received January 30, 2018
  • Revised April 20, 2019
  • Accepted June 9, 2019
  • First published July 29, 2019.
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July 29, 2019

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