%T Australian hospital statistics 2011-12: emergency department care %I Australian Institute of Health and Welfare %D 2012 %K Public health, %K Wellbeing %U https://apo.org.au/node/31237 %X In 2011-12: - there were more than 6.5 million presentations to public hospital emergency departments - 72% of patients received treatment within an appropriate time for their urgency (triage) category - almost two-thirds of patients stayed in the emergency department for 4 hours or less, and 90% had left within 8 hours and 30 minutes. %9 Report