Fig. 4
Differences in the process length in each clinical group (G). Decision for G1 patients was always discharge; for G2 and G3 patients could be discharge (home) or hospital admission (hosp). Time length in G1 was always shorter than in G3, regardless of whether G3 patients could return home. Time length in G2 was always shorter than in G3, whatever the decision, even when tpcHRRS was added to the tED, except for the 9 patients arriving from the pcHRRS who were finally discharged. The process length for most G2 patients was probably shorter since the emergency physicians were notified immediately about the X-ray findings. In those cases, the validation of the radiological report was often delayed, so tpcHRRS-G2 and tED-G2 overlapped in most cases. tpcHRRS: time span through the primary care high-resolution radiology service (pcHRRS) from the X-ray (XR) appointment to the radiological report validation; tED: time span in the emergency department (ED) from the arrival to the clinical report signature