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Triaging and Referring In Adjacent General and Emergency Departments: a six-year follow-up study after a cluster randomised trial

2026-03-24

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<h4>Objectives</h4> Emergency department (ED) overcrowding is a persistent issue in European healthcare systems. A previous randomized controlled trial (RCT) concerning out of hours care in Antwerp (2019) demonstrated that a nurse-led triage tool, extending the Manchester Triage System (eMTS), could safely redirect low-acuity ED patients to a co-located General Practitioner Cooperative (GPC). This study reports a...

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b1255a99-a07b-5127-915b-63fb07b8f01a
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10.64898/2026.03.21.26348955
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