Site and participant demographics
| (Site #) hospital site | Annual ED presentations* |
| (1) major metropolitan | 64 193 |
| (2) large regional | 38 796 |
| (3) medium metropolitan | 29 832 |
| Participants—interviews | Total |
| Senior medical (medical directors, senior emergency medicine physicians, career medical officers†) | n=11 |
| Junior medical (interns, residents, registrars) | n=7 |
| Nursing (registered nurses, advanced practice nurses, nurse practitioners) | n=8 |
| Laboratory (staff specialists, managers, scientists, typists, technical officers) | n=12 |
| Participants—focus groups | Total |
| Clinical (medical and service directors, nurse practitioner) | n=3 |
| eMR (senior analysts) | n=2 |
*Calculated using ED presentation data Oct 2016–Sept 2017 from the Health Information Exchange, NSW Health.
†A physician who has completed their training without any area of specialisation and may work in a variety of clinical settings in a hospital.23
eMR, electronic medical record; NSW, New South Wales.