Examples of Calculation of Priority Levels For Two General Surgery Patients

Assume that a surgeon answers the questions on the General Surgery questionnaire for two individual patients and the result is an identical score of 60% for each. The first step is determining overall need for a procedure.

However, the Priority Level for each also depends on how quickly the specific procedure needs to be done.

Every procedure has an Urgency Profile. For instance, some cholecystectomies (gall bladder removals) need to be done immediately while others can wait. The urgency profile range for this procedure is 25 (elective) to 100 (emergency).

In contrast, an aortic aneurysm repair (repair of a weakening in largest artery of the body) always needs to be done quickly and has a tighter urgency profile range of 70 to 100.

Cholecystecomy (Gall bladder removal)	Aortic Aneurysm Repair (Repair of a weakening in the largest artery of the body)
The score of 60% cholecystectomy is applied to this range resulting in a final urgency score of 70 placing the patient into Priority Level II.	The score of 60% for an aortic aneurysm is applied to this range resulting in a final urgency score of 88 placing the patient into Priority Level I.

Each of these Priority Levels has an associated Target Time Frame.