Table 4.
Quality indicators at the three emergency departments with different triage models
| |
Physician triage |
Nurse-physician triage |
Nurse triage |
Total |
p-value |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| Left before treatment completed |
1557 |
3.1 |
3566 |
5.3 |
3344 |
9.6 |
8467 |
5.6 |
<0.001 |
| Unscheduled return within 24 hours |
649 |
1.0 |
1446 |
2.1 |
889 |
2.5 |
2984 |
2.0 |
<0.001 |
| Unscheduled return within 72 hours |
1195 |
2.4 |
2365 |
3.5 |
1304 |
3.7 |
4864 |
3.2 |
<0.001 |
| Mortality within7 days after first visit |
402 |
0.8 |
658 |
1.0 |
328 |
1.0 |
1388 |
0.9 |
<0.001 |
| Mortality within 30 days after first visit | 864 | 1.8 | 1281 | 1.9 | 685 | 2.0 | 2830 | 1.9 | <0.001 |