Table 4.

Opinion on barriers to development of formal triage system in hospitals with ‘eyeball’ triage system

Barriers to development of Triage (n = 28)	Strongly Agree	Agree	Not Sure	Disagree	Strongly Disagree
No national guideline exist on triage	50%	18%	32%	0%	0%
No triage chart displayed in emergency receiving areas to guide practice	61%	36%	4%	0%	0%
Staff are not trained on triage	36%	36%	0%	21%	7%
Shortage of staff on duty to perform triage	57%	32%	0%	11%	0%
Triage is considered not very important	14%	4%	7%	32%	43%
Triage wastes time	18%	4%	4%	39%	36%
No space to allocate patients into categories even if triaged	18%	29%	7%	39%	7%
Poor administrative policy and support	21%	36%	14%	25%	4%

Lack of displayed triage protocol, shortage of staff on duty, lack of training on triage and lack of national triage guideline were the common barriers as per participants' opinion while some respondents thought triage waste times and not considered important.