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.

100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator)

Calculated overall and separately for each triage category

Number of presentations to public hospital emergency departments that were treated within benchmarks for each triage category:

• Triage category 1: seen within seconds, calculated as less than or equal to 2 minutes
• Triage category 2: seen within 10 minutes
• Triage category 3: seen within 30 minutes
• Triage category 4: seen within 60 minutes
• Triage category 5: seen within 120 minutes

2008–09 and 2009–10— State and territory, by triage category, by:

• peer group
• Indigenous status
• remoteness
• SEIFA quintiles Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD)

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.

Most recent data available for 2011 CRC report: 2009–10

Baseline: 2007–08