Managing triage with uniformity and individualised care — is it possible?

The Toowoomba Adult Trauma Triage Tool

“…Given that the ACEM acknowledge that triage precedes medical diagnosis 1 it seems contradictory to use diagnoses for the purposes of guiding triage practice. As Standen (1998) clearly states, if guidelines are available they should be based on signs and symptoms and not diagnoses 26 .…”