Emergency centre triage category allocations and their associated patient flow timeframes in a private healthcare group in the Middle East.

A total of 4,432 patient records were eligible for analysis from the four emergency centres. Triage category 4 (54.7%) was allocated the most with only a single category 1 patient seen between the four emergency centres. The median time from registration to triage was <10 min and triage to physician consult was <25 min. The overall length of stay of high-acuity cases was between 1 hr 13 min-2 hr 44 min, compared with low-acuity cases being 32-49 min. Overall time to physician was substantially lower than the targets set by the triage systems itself.