MyMapMedical Triage Decision Tree
The prompt
Create a medical triage decision tree for emergency department intake based on symptom severity
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About the framework
Examine a simplified decision tree in a training setting
This medical triage decision tree demonstrates a sequence of branching questions. Patient Arrives leads to Breathing?, then one path continues through Conscious? and Pain Level?. Four terminal boxes carry the labels Emergency / Immediate Care, Urgent / Priority Care, Priority / Soon Treatment, and Standard / Routine Care.
The example contains eight nodes. It does not include symptom-specific pathways, numerical wait-time targets, vital-sign thresholds, or a validated triage scale. Its simplified branches should not be used to assess patients or assign real care priorities, and they should not be relabeled as ESI levels.
Use the layout to discuss how decision nodes, branch labels, and endpoints work. For process documentation, supply a clinician-approved protocol and ask the AI to diagram that exact logic. Clinical reviewers need to verify the resulting conditions and paths before any operational use.
What's included
What you get
- An eight-node example of decision-tree structure
- Three question nodes labeled Breathing?, Conscious?, and Pain Level?
- Yes/No and High/Low branch labels
- Four sample care-priority endpoint labels
- A visual starting point for discussion of a supplied, approved protocol
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Can this tree be used to triage patients?
No. The embedded example is an unvalidated illustration of branching logic. Real clinical use requires an approved protocol and clinical review of the resulting diagram.
Does the template implement the Emergency Severity Index?
No. The sample branches do not establish an ESI assessment. Renaming its four outcomes would not make it an ESI protocol.
Can I add a symptom-specific pathway?
Provide the exact pathway approved by your clinical team and ask the AI to represent it. Review the generated diagram against that source rather than asking it to invent clinical criteria.
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