OzEmedicine - Wiki for Australian Emergency Medicine Doctors

see also:

• administrative issues
• ACEM policy - Australasian Triage Scale Nov 2000 (pdf)
  • “Where Emergency Department resources are chronically restricted, or during periods of transient patient overload, staff should be deployed so that performance is maintained in the more urgent categories.”
  • “Prolonged waiting times for undifferentiated patients presenting for emergency care is viewed as a failure of both access and quality.”
  • ACEM Triage Guidelines Implementation (pdf)
• ACEM paper - ATS 4 and 5 are DIFFERENT to GP type patients (pdf)
• "non urgent" patients in the ED

• patients dead on arrival are usually given an ATS category of 6.