MIE2021

Semantic Representation of Patient Triage Data Collected in Emergency Departments

Semantic Representation of Patient Triage Data Collected in Emergency Departments

Evangelos LOGARASa, Antonis BILLIS a,1, Georgios PETRIDISa, Charalampos BRATSASb and Panagiotis D. BAMIDISa
a Lab of Medical Physics, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
b School of Mathematics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Abstract.

Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding is a major issue for the
efficient management of patients. To this end, triage algorithms have been
developed to support the task of patient prioritization. In this paper an ontology was
designed to represent the knowledge about patient triage procedure in EDs.

Keywords.

Medical ontology, Emergency Department, Triage