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The Emergency Severity Index (ESI) is a five-level emergency department triage algorithm that provides stratification of patients on the basis of acuity and resource needs, being ESI-1 the highest acuity and ESI-5 the lesser. The ESI triage system was recently adopted at our Emergency Department. We suspect higher acuity patients are facing inappropriate stratification and thus waiting longer to be managed and stabilized. ⋯ The ESI assigned upon arrival correlated with the median waiting time, exposing undertriaged patients to longer waiting times.