From: Impact of telephone triage on emergency after hours GP Medicare usage: a time-series analysis
TIME PERIOD (POPULATION) | IN-HOURS | AFTER HOURS | VR GPS | NON VR GPS | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Not "UNSOCIABLE" HOURS | "UNSOCIABLE" HOURS | NOT "UNSOCIABLE" HOURS | "UNSOCIABLE" HOURS | |||||||
Not CON ROOMS | CON ROOMS | NOT CON ROOMS | CON ROOMS | NOT CON ROOMS | CON ROOMS | Not CON ROOMS | CON ROOMS | |||
1 | 2 | 601 | 602 | 97 | 98 | 697 | 698 | |||
Oct97/Sep98 (16,344,730) | 4025.3 | 30.0 | 11.0 | 4.2 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 7.8 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 0.2 |
Oct98/Sep99 (16,517,748) | 3975.5 | 29.2 | 11.4 | 4.1 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 6.4 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 0.4 |
Oct99/Sep00 (16,689,060) | 3871.7 | 28.0 | 10.7 | 3.9 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 6.3 | 1.3 | 2.4 | 0.4 |