Percentage of patients who are treated within national benchmarks for waiting times for each triage category in public hospital emergency departments
Number of presentations to public hospital emergency departments that were treated within benchmarks for each triage category:
See Australasian Triage Scale from the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine for description of each triage category, including indicative clinical descriptors.
The numerator and denominator include records with a Type of visit of Emergency presentation, or Not reported for South Australia.
Records are excluded from both the numerator and denominator if the episode end status is either Did not …
2009–10 (revised for peer group) and 2010–11—Nationally, by Triage category, by SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles.
2009–10 (revised for peer group) and 2010–11—State and territory, by Triage category, by:
Disaggregation by peer group is limited to Peer Groups A and B, as this is the scope of the collection, and coverage varies for other hospitals by state and territory.
Some disaggregation may result …
See Australasian Triage Scale from the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine for description of each triage category, including indicative clinical descriptors.
The numerator and denominator include records with a Type of visit of Emergency presentation, or Not reported for South Australia.
Records are excluded from both the numerator and denominator if the episode end status is either Did not wait to be attended by a health professional, or Dead on arrival, not treated in emergency department, or if the waiting time to service is invalid.
Analysis by state and territory is based on location of service.
Analysis by remoteness and SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) is based on usual residence of person.
Presented as a percentage.
Number of presentations to public hospital emergency departments that were treated within benchmarks for each triage category:
2009–10 (revised for peer group) and 2010–11—Nationally, by Triage category, by SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles.
2009–10 (revised for peer group) and 2010–11—State and territory, by Triage category, by:
Disaggregation by peer group is limited to Peer Groups A and B, as this is the scope of the collection, and coverage varies for other hospitals by state and territory.
Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication.
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