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For shortening door-to-ECG time, a chief complaint-based \u201ccardiac triage\u201d protocol comprising (1) raising alert among medical staff with bedside triage tags, and (2) immediate bedside ECG after focused history-taking was implemented at the emergency department (ED) in a single tertiary referral center. All patients diagnosed with STEMI visiting the ED between November 2017 and January 2020 were retrospectively reviewed to investigate the effectiveness of strategy before and after implantation. Analysis of a total of 117 ED patients with STEMI (pre-intervention group, n\u2009=\u200957; post-intervention group, n\u2009=\u200960) showed significant overall improvements in median door-to-ECG time from 5 to 4\u00a0min (\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009=\u20090.02), achievement rate of door-to-ECG time\u2009&lt;\u200910\u00a0min from 45 to 57% (\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009=\u20090.01), median door-to-balloon time from 81 to 70\u00a0min (\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009&lt;\u20090.01). Significant trends of increase in achievement rates for door-to-ECG and door-to-balloon times (\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009=\u20090.032 and\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009=\u20090.002, respectively) was noted after strategy implementation. The incidences of door-to-ECG time\u2009&gt;\u200910\u00a0min for those with initially underestimated disease severity (from 90 to 10%,\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009&lt;\u20090.01) and walk-in (from 29.2 to 8.8%,\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009=\u20090.04) were both reduced. 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