Table 1.

Staff time associated with components of the paediatric febrile illness pathway

Activity	Mean duration (min)
Triage time (nurse)*	4.5
Clinician consultation time (MTS green)*	16.2
Clinician consultation time (MTS yellow)*	19.4
Clinician consultation time (MTS orange)*	21.1
Clinician consultation time (MTS red)*	22.7
Clinician time—writing up patient notes#	10
Order blood/urine culture (clinician)#	10
Arrange X-ray (clinician)#	6
Book patient into the ED (receptionist)#	2
Refer patient to other specialties (clinician)#	20
Insert cannula (clinician)*	20
Provide antibiotics/other medicines (nurse)#	5
Visual assessment triage (nurse)*	2
Interpret results of ancillary investigations (clinician)#	10

*Collected during time-in-motion study

^#Estimate provided by ED consultants