ENA: Emergency Severity Index (ESI): A triage tool for ED care implementation handbook

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ENA: Emergency Severity Index (ESI): A triage tool for ED care implementation handbook

ENA's Emergency Severity Index (ESI) is a tool for use in emergency department (ED) triage. The ESI triage algorithm yields rapid, reproducible, and clinically relevant stratification of patients into five groups, from level 1 (most urgent) to level 5 (least urgent). The ESI provides a method for categorizing ED patients by both acuity and resource needs

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