Crisis Triage Rating Scale (CTRS)

Full name of scale

Crisis Triage Rating Scale

Languages

English, Mandarin

Rater

Clinician-rated

Training

No information found

Utility

It is a telephone triage tool that can be used for determining whether an individual in crisis requires psychiatric assessment.

It can be used to predict the need for hospitalization at different threshold scores.

Time to complete

No information found

Cost/license

Open access

Bengelsdorf, H., Levy, L. E., Emerson, R. L., & Barile, F. A. (1984). A crisis triage rating scale: Brief dispositional assessment of patients at risk for hospitalization. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 72, 424–430. Follow this link for the article.

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