Table 2.

Accuracy duration of nurse triage decisions by triage categories (n=7705)

Triage category			Triage duration (sec)		Assessment
	Decision	n (%)	x̅	SD	t	P
1	Inaccurate	1 (5.6)	0.93	-	-	-
	Accurate	17 (94.6)	1.41	1.676
2	Inaccurate	365 (53.9)	1,73	2.393	−0.62	0.53
	Accurate	312 (46.1)	2.04	9.063
3	Inaccurate	821 (25.5)	1.54	0.686	−4.28	0.01*
	Accurate	2394 (74.5)	1.74	1.269
4	Inaccurate	1792 (56.7)	1.39	0.817	3.81	0.01*
	Accurate	1367 (43.3)	1.29	0.479
5	Inaccurate	160 (25.2)	1.26	0.439	2.61	0.01*
	Accurate	476 (74.8)	1.13	0.582

*Significant difference. SD=Standard deviation