Table 1 Descriptive data
All units | Medicine unit | Surgery unit | Orthopaedics unit | Emergency physician unit | Otolaryngology unit | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Admission status | Not admitted | 82,051 (69.1%) | 18,493 (52.8%) | 18,608 (67.2%) | 23,484 (85.1%) | 11,580 (69.2%) | 9,886 (85.2%) |
Admitted | 36,617 (30.9%) | 16,523 (47.2%) | 9,102 (32.8%) | 4,116 (14.9%) | 5,160 (30.8%) | 1,716 (14.8%) | |
Age (yrs) | 0–17 | 16,381 (13.8%) | 7,914 (22.6%) | 4,846 (17.5%) | 6,231 (22.6%) | 1,747 (10.4%) | 3,508 (30.2%) |
18–39 | 30,097 (25.4%) | 7,684 (27.7%) | 7,442 (27.0%) | 4,087 (24.4%) | 3,019 (26.0%) | ||
40–64 | 33,468 (28.2%) | 11,139 (31.8%) | 7,328 (26.4%) | 7,372 (26.7%) | 4,855 (29.0%) | 2,774 (23.9%) | |
>65 | 38,722 (32.6%) | 15963 (45.6%) | 7,852 (28.3%) | 6,555 (23.8%) | 6,051 (36.1%) | 2,301 (19.8%) | |
Referral status | Not referred | 91,168 (76.8%) | 27,205 (77.7%) | 22,187 (80.1%) | 21,461 (77.8%) | 12,698 (75.9%) | 7,617 (65.7%) |
Referred | 18,667 (15.7%) | 5,052 (14.4%) | 3,379 (12.2%) | 4,265 (15.5%) | 3,156 (18.9%) | 2,815 (24.3%) | |
Missing | 8,833 (7.4%) | 2,759 (7.9%) | 2,144 (7.7%) | 1,874 (6.8%) | 886 (5.3%) | 1,170 (10.1%) | |
Triage priority | 1 | 5,689 (4.8%) | 3,298 (9.4%) | 1,437 (5.2%) | 277 (1.0%) | 587 (3.5%) | 90 (0.8%) |
2 | 18,461 (15.6%) | 9,136 (26.1%) | 3,898 (14.1%) | 2,181 (7.9%) | 2,626 (15.7%) | 620 (5.3%) | |
3 | 63,828 (53.8%) | 17,423 (49.8%) | 16,730 (60.4%) | 15,522 (56.2%) | 9,670 (57.8%) | 4,483 (38.6%) | |
4 | 28,502 (24.0%) | 4,774 (13.6%) | 5,245 (18.9%) | 8,703 (31.5%) | 3,598 (21.5%) | 6,182 (53.3%) | |
Missing | 2,188 (1.8%) | 385 (1.1%) | 400 (1.4%) | 917 (3.3%) | 259 (1.5%) | 227 (2.0%) | |
Sex | Female | 58,567 (49.4%) | 18,156 (51.9%) | 13,169 (47.5%) | 13,232 (47.9%) | 8,512 (50.8%) | 5,498 (47.4%) |
Male | 60,101 (50.6%) | 16,860 (48.1%) | 14,541 (52.5%) | 14,368 (52.1%) | 8,228 (49.2%) | 6,104 (52.6%) | |
In-hospital occupancy | <95% | 53,405 (45.0%) | 16,266 (46.5%) | 13,129 (47.4%) | 12,880 (46.7%) | 6,391 (38.2%) | 4,739 (40.8%) |
95–100% | 34,258 (28.9%) | 10,452 (29.8%) | 8,070 (29.1%) | 7,930 (28.7%) | 4,558 (27.2%) | 3,248 (28.0%) | |
100–105% | 23,920 (20.2%) | 6,569 (18.8%) | 5,167 (18.6%) | 5,251 (19.0%) | 4,296 (25.7%) | 2,637 (22.7%) | |
>105% | 7,085 (6.0%) | 1,729 (4.9%) | 1,344 (4.9%) | 1,539 (5.6%) | 1,495 (8.9%) | 978 (8.4%) | |
LWBS | Yes | 2,332 (2.0%) | 692 (2.0%) | 706 (2.5%) | 571 (2.1%) | 216 (1.3%) | 147 (1.3%) |
Passed primary triage | Yes | 18,616 (15.7%) | 4,103 (11.7%) | 4,198 (15.1%) | 5,778 (20.9%) | 2,678 (16.0%) | 1,859 (16.0%) |
Total visits | 118,668 | 35,016 | 27,710 | 27,600 | 16,740 | 11,602 |