Editing Triage (section)

==== Canada ====
In 1995, the CAEP Triage and Acuity scale was launched in Canada relying on a simplified version of the Australian National Triage Scale.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 1999 |title=A Uniform Triage Scale in Emergency Medicine: Information Paper |url=https://www.acep.org/siteassets/uploads/uploaded-files/acep/clinical-and-practice-management/resources/administration/triagescaleip.pdf |publisher=[[American College of Emergency Physicians]]}}</ref> This scale used three categories, emergent, urgent, and non-urgent.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012 |title=The Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale: Education Manual |url=https://caep.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/module_1_slides_v2.5_2012.pdf |access-date=10 May 2023 |publisher=The Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians}}</ref> This scale was deprecated in 1999 with the introduction of the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS),<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 2013 |title=The Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale: Combined Adult/Paediatric Educational Program Participants Manual |url=http://ctas-phctas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/participant_manual_v2.5b_november_2013_0.pdf |access-date=10 May 2023 |publisher=Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians}}</ref> which is used across the country to sort incoming patients.<ref>{{cite web |title=Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians website) |url=http://www.caep.ca/template.asp?id=B795164082374289BBD9C1C2BF4B8D32 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210093457/http://www.caep.ca/template.asp?id=B795164082374289BBD9C1C2BF4B8D32 |archive-date=2008-12-10 |access-date=2008-12-02}}</ref>  The system categorizes patients by both injury and physiological findings, and ranks them by severity from 1–5 (1 being highest).<ref name="jhas22">{{cite journal | vauthors = Alghalyini B, Shakir IM, Wahed MM, Babar SM, Mohamed MS |date=30 June 2022 |title=Does SARI Score Predict COVID-19 Positivity? A Retrospective Analysis of Emergency Department Patients in a Tertiary Hospital |url=https://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/pdf/10.1055/s-0042-1748806.pdf |journal=Journal of Health and Allied Sciences |volume=13 |issue= |pages=077–082 |doi=10.1055/s-0042-1748806 |s2cid=250189262 |access-date=1 July 2022}}</ref>  The model is not currently used for mass casualty triage, and instead the START protocol and METTAG triage tags is used.<ref>{{cite web |title=METTAG Triage Tags |url=http://www.mettag.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328180133/https://www.mettag.com/ |archive-date=2019-03-28 |access-date=2008-12-02}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS)
!Level
!Description
!Should be seen by provider within
|-
|1
|Resuscitation
|0 minutes
|-
|2
|Emergency
|15 minutes
|-
|3
|Urgent
|30 minutes
|-
|4
|Less Urgent
|60 minutes
|-
|5
|Non Urgent
|120 minutes
|}