Editing Triage (section)

==== Australia and New Zealand ====
In hospital settings, Australia and New Zealand rely on the ''Australasian Triage Scale'' (abbreviated ''ATS'' and formally known as the ''National Triage Scale'').<ref name="ethics">{{cite journal |vauthors=Aacharya RP, Gastmans C, Denier Y |year=2011 |title=Emergency department triage: an ethical analysis |journal=[[BMC Emergency Medicine]] |volume=11 |page=16 |doi=10.1186/1471-227X-11-16 |pmc=3199257 |pmid=21982119 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |date=November 2000 |title=Policy on the Australasian Triage Scale |url=http://www.acem.org.au/media/policies_and_guidelines/P06_Aust_Triage_Scale_-_Nov_2000.pdf |url-status=dead |journal=Australasian College for Emergency Medicine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322001312/http://www.acem.org.au/media/policies_and_guidelines/P06_Aust_Triage_Scale_-_Nov_2000.pdf |archive-date=2012-03-22 |access-date=2011-12-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=ACEM - Triage |url=https://acem.org.au/Content-Sources/Advancing-Emergency-Medicine/Better-Outcomes-for-Patients/Triage |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=acem.org.au}}</ref> The scale has been in use since 1994.<ref name="modern">{{cite journal |vauthors=Christ M, Grossmann F, Winter D, Bingisser R, Platz E |date=December 2010 |title=Modern triage in the emergency department |journal=[[Deutsches Ärzteblatt International]] |volume=107 |issue=50 |pages=892–98 |doi=10.3238/arztebl.2010.0892 |pmc=3021905 |pmid=21246025}}</ref> The scale consists of 5 levels, with 1 being the most critical (resuscitation), and 5 being the least critical (nonurgent).<ref name="ethics" />

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Australasian Triage Scale
!Level
!Description
!Should be seen by provider within
|-
|1
|Resuscitation
|0 minutes
|-
|2
|Emergency
|10 minutes
|-
|3
|Urgent
|30 minutes
|-
|4
|Semi-Urgent
|60 minutes
|-
|5
|Nonurgent
|120 minutes
|}

In field settings, various standardized triage systems are used, and there is no area wide standard.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Field K, Norton I | title = Australian triage tags: a prospective, randomised cross-over trial and evaluation of user preference | journal = Emergency Medicine Australasia | volume = 24 | issue = 3 | pages = 321–328 | date = June 2012 | pmid = 22672173 | doi = 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2012.01573.x | s2cid = 25074668 }}</ref>