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Response From Authors to the Letter to the Editor
Annals of Emergency Medicine1 Sept 2026General Emergency Medicine
Clinical takeaway
Audit undertriage and time-to-care for critically ill patients locally, while remembering that this correspondence reports an association and is not a validated triage intervention.
EDCritix summary
In their response, the authors reiterate findings from more than 5.3 million encounters at 21 community EDs: over one-third of the sickest patients were undertriaged, with a median eight-minute delay versus correctly identified high-acuity patients.