Table 2 Values for 1990 and 2004 are shown for the following parameters for each decade of life: the number of patients who did not wait to be seen (DNW); the number of patients who did wait (obtained by subtracting columns 2 and 3 of this table from columns 2 and 3 of table 1); and the proportion of the patients who did wait and who were diagnosed and treated in less than one hour (D&T<1 h).
Age (years) | DNW | Waited | D&T<1 h | |||
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1990 | 2004 | 1990 | 2004 | 1990 | 2004 | |
0–10 | 57 | 190 | 3236 | 4815 | 0.768 | 0.679 |
11–20 | 95 | 289 | 4704 | 5916 | 0.740 | 0.635 |
21–30 | 148 | 283 | 5254 | 4947 | 0.742 | 0.599 |
31–40 | 48 | 301 | 2939 | 4960 | 0.730 | 0.574 |
41–50 | 64 | 198 | 2299 | 3517 | 0.720 | 0.541 |
51–60 | 27 | 122 | 1463 | 3059 | 0.651 | 0.488 |
61–70 | 11 | 96 | 1128 | 2067 | 0.620 | 0.392 |
71–80 | 15 | 60 | 988 | 2398 | 0.503 | 0.285 |
81–90 | 3 | 38 | 559 | 1863 | 0.410 | 0.205 |
91–100 | 0 | 12 | 63 | 467 | 0.333 | 0.169 |
101–110 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 0.500 | 0.182 |