Outpatient triage work is the first link and an important aspect of outpatient service. The accuracy and timeliness of triage work not only directly affect the quick and effective treatment, but also directly reflect the overall image of the outpatient and the professional skill of the nurses. This article reviews the status, existing problems, management mode of current hospital outpatient triage, to discuss outpatient triage work effect of improving clinic work efficiency, ensuring the treatment safety and promoting patients satisfaction, so as to provide a basis for building general hospitals' outpaitient triage management mode of general hospital and improving patients′ satisfaction of treatment.