Table 1.

Participants' opinion on possible barriers to improving triage in hospital with formal local protocol

Limiting factors to improving triage	Strongly	Agree	Not	Disagree	Strongly
(n = 5	Agree		Sure		Disagree
Triage scales varies from one hospital to another	60%	20%	0%	0%	20%
No triage chart displayed in emergency receiving areas to guide practice	0%	0%	0%	40%	60%
Lack of regular training of staff on triage	80%	20%	0%	0%	0%
Shortage of staff on duty to perform triage	60%	20%	0%	0%	20%
Staff have poor attitudes toward sticking to triage guideline	60%	0%	0%	20%	20%
No space to allocate patients into categories even if triaged	40%	20%	0%	0%	40%
Poor administrative policy and support	20%	40%	0%	20%	20%

Most participants concurred with the suggested barriers to improving triage except on the points of poor administrative support, poor attitudes of staff, no space allocated for triage and absence of triage chart displayed inemergency receiving areas where some staff disagreed.