A New Quantitative Triage System for Hospitalized Neonates to Assist with Decisions of Hospital Evacuation Priorities

The authors (located in Japan) developed the Neonatal Extrication Triage system to prioritize hospitalized newborns for evacuation and compared it to an existing system (START-Neo-R). Physicians and nurses independently evaluated each patient over a seven-week period and found that the new system was reproducible and correlated with the existing evaluation tool, making it another important tool to consider when evaluating hospitalized neonate evacuation priority.