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.