Number of presentations to public hospital emergency departments that were treated within benchmarks for each triage category:
See National 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 …
2008–09 and 2009–10— 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.
Disaggregations within individual jurisdictions are subject to data quality considerations. Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication. National disaggregation by Indigenous status will be …
See National 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 or Dead on arrival, or if the Waiting time to service is invalid.
Disaggregation by state and territory based on hospital location.
Presented as a percentage.
Number of presentations to public hospital emergency departments that were treated within benchmarks for each triage category:
2008–09 and 2009–10— 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.
Disaggregations within individual jurisdictions are subject to data quality considerations. Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication. National disaggregation by Indigenous status will be based on data only from jurisdictions for which the quality of Indigenous identification is considered acceptable.
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