A Mobile App for Self-Triage for Pediatric Emergency Patients in Japan: 4 Year Descriptive Epidemiological Study

Yusuke Katayama   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Kosuke Kiyohara   ² , DrPH ;   Tomoya Hirose   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Tasuku Matsuyama   ³ , MD, PhD ;   Kenichiro Ishida   ⁴ , MD ;   Shunichiro Nakao   ¹ , MD, MSc ;   Jotaro Tachino   ¹ , MD ;   Masahiro Ojima   ⁴ , MD ;   Tomohiro Noda   ⁵ , MD ;   Takeyuki Kiguchi   ⁶ , MD, PhD ;   Sumito Hayashida   ⁷ ;   Tetsuhisa Kitamura   ⁸ , MD, DrPH ;   Yasumitsu Mizobata   ⁵ , MD, PhD ;   Takeshi Shimazu   ¹ , MD, PhD

¹ Department of Traumatology and Acute Critical Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan

² Department of Food Science, Faculty of Home Economics, Otsuma Women's University, Tokyo, Japan

³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

⁴ Department of Acute Medicine and Critical Care Center, Osaka National Hospital, Osaka, Japan

⁵ Department of Traumatology and Critical Care Medicine, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

⁶ Health Services, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

⁷ Osaka Municipal Fire Department, Osaka, Japan

⁸ Division of Environmental Medicine and Population Sciences, Department of Social and Environmental Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan