TY - Report PY - 2012 T1 - Australian hospital statistics 2011-12: emergency department care PB - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare DO - https://doi.org/APO-31237 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/31237 AB - 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. ER -