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Does physician-led triage reduce emergency department overcrowding?

Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Agustín Ciapponi

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Emergency department overcrowding is a serious problem facing healthcare systems worldwide that can lead to delays in time-sensitive diagnostic and treatment decisions and poor health outcomes. Triage systems are used to decide who needs urgent care and who can wait, sorting patients according to urgency or type of service required. They employ systems to prioritise or assign patients to treatment categories in order to assist in their management.

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Emergency department overcrowding is a serious problem facing healthcare systems worldwide that can lead to delays in time-sensitive diagnostic and treatment decisions and poor health outcomes. Triage systems are used to decide who needs urgent care and who can wait, sorting patients according to urgency or type of service required. They employ systems to prioritise or assign patients to treatment categories in order to assist in their management.

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Emergency department overcrowding is a serious problem facing healthcare systems worldwide that can lead to delays in time-sensitive diagnostic and treatment decisions and poor health outcomes. Triage systems are used to decide who needs urgent care and who can wait, sorting patients according to urgency or type of service required. They employ systems to prioritise or assign patients to treatment categories in order to assist in their management.

Key concepts: Overcrowding, Triage, Emergency department, Medical emergency, Health care, Sorting, Medicine, Service (business)

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