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Table 1 Data description

From: Detecting and diagnosing hotspots for the enhanced management of hospital emergency departments in Queensland, Australia

Information type

Variable

Variable type

Details

Temporal information

Arrival date and Time

Temporal

To the nearest minute. From 2006 to present day

Presentation information

Facility

Categorical

One of 18 Hospitals spread over QLD (including a children’s hospital)

 

Triage category

Categorical (Ordered)

Rating of urgency on presentation: 1,2,3,4,5 (1 requires resuscitation down to 5 being non-urgent)

 

Departure Status

Categorical

Discharged, Admitted, Did Not Wait, Transferred, Died in ED, Left Against Advice, Dead On Arrival

 

ICD-10 Code

Categorical

A coding of diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances and external causes of injury or diseases; 5000 unique codes present in data set [19]

Demographic Information

Age

Continuous

Age in years

 

Sex

Categorical