Chang Gung medical journal
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To examine nurse-physician inter-observer agreement on triage categorization and analyze their differences for future reference. ⋯ The overall nurse-physician agreement with triage categorization was poor. The lack of agreement on triage decision making has important implications for EDs in which the priority of care is based on nursing triage categorization. Detailed chart recording and continued work is necessary to improve the agreement between nurse-physician triage categorization.