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 Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode - triage category, code N for description of each triage category.
The numerator and denominator include records with a Type of visit of Emergency presentation, or Not reported for South Australia for data from 2009-10 and previous years.
Records are excluded from both the numerator and denominator if the episode end status …
2008-09, 2009-10, 2010–11 (revised for peer group) and 2011–12—Nationally, by Triage category, by SEIFA Index of Relative Socio-Economic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles.
2008-09, 2009-10, 2010–11 (revised for peer group) and 2011–12—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. …
See Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode - triage category, code N for description of each triage category.
The numerator and denominator include records with a Type of visit of Emergency presentation, or Not reported for South Australia for data from 2009-10 and previous years.
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.
Limited to public hospitals in Peer Group A and B.
To ensure comparability over time, emergency department activity at the Mersey Community Hospital is reported with Peer Group B hospitals for National Healthcare Agreement purposes. Whilst it is currently not a Peer Group A or B hospital, in the baseline year (2007-08) Mersey was a campus of the Peer Group B North West Regional Hospital and its emergency department activity was included in the baseline.
Analysis by state and territory is based on location of service.
Analysis by remoteness and Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Socio-Economic 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:
2008-09, 2009-10, 2010–11 (revised for peer group) and 2011–12—Nationally, by Triage category, by SEIFA Index of Relative Socio-Economic Disadvantage (IRSD) deciles.
2008-09, 2009-10, 2010–11 (revised for peer group) and 2011–12—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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