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Fig. 27.5
CFCM-ESI output for case 1, patient is correctly triaged at ESI2
Case 2
A 63-year-old cachectic male was brought to the ED from the nursing home because
his feeding tube fell out again. The patient is usually unresponsive and has been in
the nursing home since he suffered a massive stroke about 4 years ago [16].
The patient was triaged at ESI level-4-Routine, which means that the patient was
sent back to the nursing home after the feeding tube was reinserted. There was no
acute change in his medical condition, even though he was unresponsive, since that
is the patient's baseline mental status and so he was not triaged at ESI level 1.
The Competitive FCM-ESI was run using the initial fuzzy factor concept values
based on the case information:
FC1=0 FC2=0 FC3=0 FC4=W FC5=W
FC6=W FC7=W FC8=S FC9=W FC10=0
FC11=W FC12=0 FC13=0 FC14=S FC15=W
FC16=0 FC17=W FC18=0 FC19=W FC20=0
FC21=VVS FC22=0
