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Emergency department triage categories:
Category 1: Immediately life-threatening (100% to be seen immediately). For reporting purposes nationally, a Category 1 patient is considered to be seen within time if the waiting time to commencement of clinical care was less than or equal to two minutes.
Category 2: Imminently life-threatening, important time-critical treatment or very severe pain (80% to be seen within ten minutes).
Category 3: Potentially life-threatening, situational urgency or severe discomfort or distress (75% to be seen within 30 minutes).
Category 4: Potentially serious symptoms, situational urgency, significant complexity or severity, discomfort or distress (70% to be seen within 60 minutes).
Category 5: Less urgent or clinical and administrative problems (70% to be seen within 120 minutes).
Statistics on this page are reported by day of arrival at an emergency department.
Data may vary from that previously published due to data reporting practices.
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The number of people presenting to an emergency department.
Major hospitals
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Launceston General Hospital (LGH)
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Mersey Community Hospital (MCH)
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North West Regional Hospital (NWRH)
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Royal Hobart Hospital (RHH)
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