Emergency department attendances include presentations to public hospital emergency departments with a Type of visit of Emergency presentation where the patient: - was allocated a Triage category of 3, 4 or 5 and
- was not admitted to the hospital, not referred to another hospital, or did not die.
An after-hours emergency department attendance is defined as - Weekdays before 8am and on or after 8pm
- Saturdays before 8am and on or after 1pm
- Sundays all day and public holidays (all national public holidays and state and territory specific public holidays are included)
Analysis by Primary Healthcare Network (PHN) and Statistical Area level 3 (SA3) is based on usual residence of person. All data for a geographic area have been suppressed if there are: - Less than 2,500 people resident in the geographic area or
- Less than 20 emergency department separations in the geographic area
Additional analysis was conducted to estimate the proportion of ED presentations that were missing from the reported rate for each geographic area. Results for a geographic area were suppressed if the proportion of missing presentations was >10%. Information about a geographic area was indicated to be interpreted with caution if the percentage of missing presentations in an area was 6–10%. |