About the Authors

Sumanth Madhusudan Prabhakar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Takashi Tagami

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

t-tagami@nms.ac.jp (TT); liu.nan@singhealth.com.sg (NL)

Affiliations Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Nippon Medical School Tama Nagayama Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Nan Liu

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

t-tagami@nms.ac.jp (TT); liu.nan@singhealth.com.sg (NL)

Affiliations Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore, Health Services Research Centre, Singapore Health Services, Singapore, Singapore

Mas’uud Ibnu Samsudin

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore

Janson Cheng Ji Ng

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Zhi Xiong Koh

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Marcus Eng Hock Ong

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Emergency Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

NL and MO have a patent filing that is not directly related to this study (System and method of determining a risk score for triage, Application Number: US 13/791,764). MO has a similar patent filing unrelated to this study (Method of predicting acute cardiopulmonary events and survivability of a patient, Application Number: US 13/047,348). MO also has a licensing agreement with ZOLL Medical Corporation for the above patented technology. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. All the other authors do not have either commercial or personal associations or any sources of support that might pose a conflict of interest in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript. Our conflict of interest does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.