Triage

Patients wait in Emergency Department for various reasons:

• • There are several patients who have applied to Emergency Department, and these include emergency patients who need immediate response, therefore they will be given service before you.

• • It takes time to receive results from laboratories, x-rays and other tests we have asked from you with the purpose of diagnosis.

• • If a consultant physician was consulted in respect to your disease, it can take time for the relevant consultant physician to evaluate you and consult with the responsible academic staff again.

• • Consultant physicians from more than one branches can see you and they might need to exchange information among themselves in order to agree on the most appropriate treatment plan for you.

• • If you were admitted as an inpatient, it can take time for the beds located upstairs to be prepared.

• • Sometimes, it is required to speak to the physicians who first admitted and referred you and to access former information in your file at our hospital in order to have a better understanding of your disease.

• • You need to be admitted as an inpatient, yet there is no vacant bed in the related medical department and an appropriate bed cannot be found at the other hospitals in Ankara either.

• If you have questions about the delay in Emergency Department, you can receive the necessary explanation from the physicians who give you a treatment.