Factors Impacting Emergency Department Triage Duration

Patient Gender Male 4.62 (2.63) p = 0.47 Female 4.39 (2.57) • Our results may be biased because this was an adult, single center, study (university medical center, urban) conducted in a southern state. • A retrospective study of existing data may not identify all factors impacting triage. • We did not include patient chief complaint in our analysis. • We did not look at triage accuracy. Our pr imary object ive was to determine the pat ient and system factors that impact ED tr iage durat ion. OBJECTIVE 97,885 triage events from 368 teams