Influence of electronic triage decision-support on hospital admission, left without being seen and time to physician initial assessment in the emergency department

ObjectiveTo explore the impact of the implementation of eCTAS, a real-time electronic decision-support tool, on hospital admission, rate of left without being seen, and time from triage to physician initial assessment.MethodsWe conducted a cohort study using population-based administrative data from all Ontario emergency departments (EDs) that had implemented eCTAS for 9 months. We compared 6 months post-eCTAS data to the same 6 months the …