Table 3 Numbers and proportions of patients spending less or more than four hours at the emergency department
Physician triage | Nurse-physician triage | Nurse triage | p-value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
Less than a 4 - hours stay at the ED | 37043 | 76.1 | 32936 | 48.9 | 20511 | 59.0 | <0.001 |
More than a 4 -hours stay at the ED | 11595 | 23.8 | 34365 | 51.1 | 14218 | 40.9 | <0.001 |
Missing data | 66 | 0.13 | 14 | 0.02 | 31 | 0.08 | |
Total | 48676 | 100 | 67309 | 100 | 34729 | 100 | |