Massaut J, et al. - Researchers performed this work to assess if South African Triage Scale (SATS) data, reason for admission, and patient age can be used to develop and validate a model predicting the in-hospital risk of death in emergency surgical centers and to compare the model’s discriminative power with that of the four SATS categories alone. Findings suggested the utility of SATS category, patient age, and reason for admission in predicting in-hospital mortality. This predictive model indicated good discriminative ability to identify ED patients at a high risk of death and performed better than the SATS alone.