Objective: To validate use of the Manchester triage system in paediatric emergency care. Design: Prospective observational study. Setting: Emergency departments of a university hospital and a teaching ...

Background: Patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) currently face inacceptable delays in initial treatment, and long, costly hospital stays due to suboptimal initial triage and ...

Treatment priority as adjudicated by the attending physicians at ED discharge is not a "hard" endpoint and may be subject to variation due to different levels of experience of physicians. Nevertheless ...