Patient classification algorithm at urgency care area of a hospital based on the triage system

The time passed in the urgency zone of a hospital is really important, and the quick evaluation and selection of the patients who arrive to this area is essential to avoid waste of time and help the patients in a higher emergency level. The triage, an evaluation and classification structured system, allows to manage the urgency level of the patient; it is based on the vital signs measures and clinical data of the patient. The goal is making the classification in the shortest possible time and with a minimal error percentage. Levels are allocated according to the concept that what is urgent is not always serious and that what is serious is not always urgent. In this work, we present a computational algorithm that evaluates the patients within the fever symptomatic category, we use fuzzy logic and decision trees to collect and analyze simultaneously the vital signs and the clinical data of the patient through a graphical interface; so that the classification can be more intuitive and faster. Fuzzy logic allows us to process data and take a decision based on incomplete information or uncertain values, decision trees are structures or rules sets that classify the data when we have several variables.