Table 2 Test performance criteria results by study participant characteristics
Professional education (staffing) | Employment status | Previous mSTaRT training | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whole collective | Mobile intensive care units | Patient transport ambulance | Disaster response teams | Career teams | Volunteer teams | Yes | No | MSTaRT [[14]] | |
(n = 780) | (n = 420) | (n = 40) | (n = 100) | (n = 480) | (n = 140) | (n = 220) | (n = 160) | ||
Test performance criteria | |||||||||
Correct triage | 83.9% | 85.2% | 90.0% | 88.0% | 84.3% | 87.9% | 88.6% | 83.8% | 84.8% |
(81.3 – 86.5) | (81.8 - 88.6) | (81.8 - 100.0) | (81.6 - 93.8) | (81.1 – 87.3) | (82.1 - 93.1) | (84.2 - 92.8) | (77.9 - 89.3) | (78.7 - 91.0) | |
Sensitivity | 87.4% | 89.2% | 100.0% | 90.0% | 88.3% | 91.3% | 93.8% | 86.8% | 88.2% |
(83.7 – 90.9) | (84.7 - 93.6) | (81.0 - 97.9) | (83.6 – 92.5) | (84.5 - 97.2) | (88.5 - 97.8) | (78.7 - 93.9) | (73.4 - 95.3) | ||
Specificity | 91.0% | 89.6% | 92.3% | 95.6% | 90.2% | 95.4% | 90.7% | 93.6% | 93.9% |
(88.1 – 93.8) | (85.0 - 93.6) | (81.0 - 100.0) | (88.6 - 100.0) | (86.1 - 93.6) | (89.9 - 100.0) | (85.1 - 95.7) | (87.7 - 98.7) | (87.3 - 97.2) | |
LR + | 9.7 | 8.6 | 13.0 | 19.1 | 9.01 | 19.8 | 10.1 | 13.6 | 14.5 |
LR - | 0.139 | 0.121 | 0.000 | 0.105 | 0.130 | 0.091 | 0.068 | 0.141 | 0.126 |
Over-triage | 6.4% | 6.9% | 7.5% | 6.0% | 6.3% | 6.4% | 6.8% | 6.3% | 8.3% |
(4.9 – 8.1) | (4.9 - 8.1) | (0.0 - 16.7) | (1.9 - 10.9) | (4.3 – 8.6) | (2.9 - 10.6) | (3.9 - 10.2) | (2.7 - 10.6) | (3.6 - 13.0) | |
Critical over-triage | 4.4% | 4.4% | 5.0% | 2.0% | 4.8% | 2.1% | 4.5% | 3.1% | 5.3% |
(3.0 – 5.8) | (3.0 - 5.8) | (0.0 - 13.5) | (0.0 - 5.1) | (3.0 – 6.8) | (0.0 - 4.8) | (2.2 - 7.5) | (0.6 -6.2) | (1.5 - 9.1) | |
Under-triage | 9.7% | 9.7% | 2.5% | 6.0% | 9.4% | 5.7% | 4.5%* | 10.0%* | 6.8% |
(7.7 – 11.8) | (7.7 - 11.8) | (0.0 - 8.3) | (1.9 - 10.7) | (6.9 – 12.2) | (2.2 - 10.1) | (2.0 - 7.5) | (5.6 - 14.9) | (2.5 - 11.1) | |
Critical under-triage | 4.8% | 4.8% | 0.0% | 5.0 | 4.2% | 2.1% | 2.7% | 6.3% | 3.0% |
(3.3 – 6.3) | (3.0 - 4.8) | (1.0 - 9.4) | (2.4 – 6.2) | (1.4 - 7.9) | (0.9 - 5.0) | (2.9 - 10.1) | (0.1 - 6.0) | ||
Bleeding control | 93.1% | 92.4% | 82.5% | 93.0% | 90.8% | 92.1% | 89.5%† | 93.8%† | - |
(91.3 - 94.7) | (89.7 - 94.8) | (69.4 - 93.8) | (87.4 - 97.6) | (88.0 - 93.3) | (87.3 - 96.1) | (85.1 - 93.1) | (89.7 - 97.4) | ||
Airway opening | 90.0% | 82.9% | 85.0% | 84.0% | 82.4% | 83.6% | 80.0% | 83.1% | - |
(87.9 - 92.1) | (79.4 - 86.3) | (72.7 - 95.6) | (76.5 - 90.9) | (79.0 - 85.5) | (77.3 - 89.4) | (74.4 - 85.2) | (77.3 - 89.0) | ||