Semantic Representation of Patient Triage Data Collected in Emergency Departments

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2021 May 27:281:1097-1099. doi: 10.3233/SHTI210362.

Abstract

Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding is a major issue for the efficient management of patients. To this end, triage algorithms have been developed to support the task of patient prioritization. In this paper an ontology was designed to represent the knowledge about patient triage procedure in EDs.

Keywords: Emergency Department; Medical ontology; Triage.

MeSH terms

  • Emergency Service, Hospital
  • Humans
  • Semantics*
  • Triage*