Study question To determine if placing a senior doctor at triage versus standard single nurse
in a hospital emergency department (ED) improves ED performance by reviewing evidence …

Objective To examine the effect of clinician designation on emergency department (ED) fast
track performance. Design and Setting A retrospective audit of patients managed in the fast …

Objectives To identify, critically appraise and summarise evidence on the impact of
employing primary healthcare professionals (PHCPs: family physicians/general practitioners …

Background Emergency department (ED) crowding is associated with patient safety
concerns, increased patients left without being seen (LWBS), low patient satisfaction, and …

Objective To determine the impact on emergency department (ED) throughput times and
proportion of patients who leave without being seen by a physician (LWBS) of two triage …

Triaging of patients at the emergency department (ED) is one of the key steps prior to
initiation of doctor consult. To improve the overall wait time to consultation, we have …

Background Although the use of a physician and nurse team at triage has been shown to
improve emergency department (ED) throughput, the mechanism (s) by which these …

Emergency Departments (ED) are trying to alleviate crowding using various interventions.
We assessed the effect of an alternative model of care, the Medical Team Evaluation (MTE) …

Objective The objective of this study was to assess the implementation of a novel ED model
of care, which combines clinical streaming, team‐based assessment and early senior …

Objectives To compare waiting time, treatment time, length of stay (LOS), patient satisfaction
and distribution of waiting times over levels of urgency before and after the implementation …