Australian hospital statistics 2012-13: emergency department care

In 2012-13: - There were more than 6.7 million presentations to public hospital emergency departments - 73% of patients received treatment within an appropriate time for their urgency (triage) category - 67% of patients spent 4 hours or less in the emergency department - 1.8 million patients were admitted to the hospital from the emergency department, and 36% of these were admitted within 4 hours.