Patients without previous health care professional contact were assigned more acute triage categories. Health care professionals may advise families to visit the ED more frequently than necessary, which could contribute to ED congestion. Incorporating a parental estimate of the degree of urgency of their child's complaint into triage procedures represents an intriguing and challenging possibility.
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