• J Adv Nurs · Dec 1990

    Triage in accident and emergency departments.

    • J Mallett and C Woolwich.
    • Department of Public Health, St Mary's Hospital, London, England.
    • J Adv Nurs. 1990 Dec 1;15(12):1443-51.

    AbstractThis study was carried out to investigate the effect of triage on attenders' waiting times in an accident and emergency (A & E) department. The A & E department comprised three separate areas: the A & E unit, dressing clinic and review clinic. Data on all A & E attenders were collected by the nursing staff over a period of 1 week using a data collection form. The waiting times for the attenders to be seen by a doctor in 1988 were longer than in 1986. This may partly reflect the lower number of people using A & E in 1986, while the current practice of an initial triage assessment may slow the patients' access to a doctor. This latter finding is a cause for concern, since the receptionist is the main triage assessor at night. However, the time the attender spent waiting to be clinically assessed by a health care professional (nurse) was shorter in 1988 than when performed by a health care professional (doctor) in 1986. This indicated that nurse triage enabled a shorter waiting time between arrival and assessment of the A & E unit attender.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…