Asthma in Australia 2005
Figure 5.17
Outcome status by triage category among people visiting emergency departments for asthma, New South Wales and Victoria, July 1999 to June 2004
Note: Data are aggregated from July 1999 to June 2004. Those that were dead on arrival were excluded. ‘Admitted’ includes admissions to hospital, ED and intensive care units and also transfers to another hospital. ‘Departed: treatment completed’ excludes people who did not wait for treatment.
Sources: NSW Emergency Department Data Collection (EDDC) (HOIST), Centre for Epidemiology and Research, NSW Department of Health; Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset (VEMD), Victorian Department of Human Services.
Data table
| Health service attendance | Admitted to hospital/ED/Intensive Care Unit |
Departed: treatment completed |
| Resuscitation | 89.05 |
10.47 |
| Emergency | 68.17 |
31.81 |
| Urgent | 41.29 |
58.71 |
| Semi-urgent | 16.44 |
83.56 |
| Non-urgent | 6.75 |
93.25 |
© Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2005