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ecj-8307	Saban, Mor; Armoni, Nadav; Patito, Heli; Shachar, Tal; Darawsha, Aziz; Lipsky, Ari	Time from triage to initial physician assessment: A 5-year retrospective analysis	2019	6	.pdf	application/pdf	4826	268	56	The aim of the study is to examine whether ED physicians and consultants adhere to triage target times for initiating patient care, according to the level of urgency as defined in CTAS. Introduction Triage – initial assessment of patients who present to the Emergency Department (ED) – is aimed at diagnosing and priori- tizing as quickly and accurately as possible the current state of the patient and determining his/her trajectory of care.1-4 To this aim, the triage nurse uses a semi-structured scoring system that catego- rizes the level of clinical urgency of a presenting problem, based on inputs from several sources such as the patient’s subjective complaint, his or her medical background, and initial assessment.5,6 Research in ED triage has focused on the development of reli- able and valid triage scales and the examination of skills of regis- tered nurses in allocating acuity ratings.7-10 Several five-level triage scales for the ED have been developed in Anglophone countries; of these, the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) is among the most commonly used.8	cache/ecj-8307.pdf	txt/ecj-8307.txt