General characteristics of the subgroup with approximately constant staffing resources for the different triage processes
| Triage process | (1) Nurse-led triage | (2) Physician-led triage | (3) Interprofessional teamwork | ||||||
| Time period | 9 May 2012 to 8 May 2013 | Period 1 versus 2 (P values) | 13 May 2013 to 12 May 2014 | Period 2 versus 3 (P values) | 12 November 2014 to 11 November 2015 | Period 3 versus 1 (P values) | |||
| Triage protocol | Rapid Emergency Triage and Treatment System | None | None | ||||||
| n | n | n | |||||||
| All arrivals | 57 987 | 56 250 | 52 380 | ||||||
| Arrivals weekdays 08:00 to 21:00 | 32 191 | 55.5% | 0.249 | 31 600 | 56.2% | 0.243 | 29 238 | 55.8% | 0.307 |
| Female gender | 16 375 | 50.9% | 0.213 | 15 917 | 50.4% | 0.161 | 14 438 | 49.4% | 0.015 |
| Mean age (years) | 51.5 years | SD 21.9 | 0.001 | 52.1 years | SD 22.1 | 0.753 | 52.2 years | SD 22.0 | <0.001 |
| Arrival mode | |||||||||
| Ambulance no alert | 5778 | 17.9% | 0.187 | 5800 | 18.4% | <0.001 | 5954 | 20.4% | <0.001 |
| Prehospital ambulance alert | 1002 | 3.1% | 0.322 | 940 | 3.0% | 0.004 | 757 | 2.6% | <0.001 |
| In-beds weekdays at 06:00 | |||||||||
| Mean available beds | 180 | 179 | 172 | ||||||
| Median bed occupancy | 161 | 89.5% | <0.001 | 164 | 92.0% | <0.001 | 163 | 94.8% | <0.001 |
| Staffing weekdays 08:00 to 21:00 | |||||||||
| Physician hours | 132.5 | 143.8 | 141.5 | ||||||
| Nurse hours including assistants | 262.3 | 261.6 | 260.9 | ||||||