Physician gestalt for emergency department triage: A prospective videotaped study.

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Abstract

Appropriate triage in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) is often challenging. Little is known about the role of physician gestalt in ED triage. We aimed to compare the accuracy of emergency physician gestalt against the currently used computerized triage process.

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Journal

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Acad Emerg Med

Title: Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Publisher: Wiley

ISSN (Electronic): 1553-2712

ISSN (Print): 1069-6563

Publication date (Electronic): Sep 2022

Volume: 29

Issue: 9

Affiliations

[1 ] Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.

[2 ] Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

[3 ] Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin-Chu Branch, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

[4 ] Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Yun-Lin Branch, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

[5 ] Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Article

DOI: 10.1111/acem.14557

PubMed ID: 35785459

SO-VID: 7cc128b4-fb18-4111-afd6-7882da5fa429

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Keywords: triage,physician gestalt,emergency department

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Keywords: triage, physician gestalt, emergency department

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