Table 1.
Hospital and ED characteristics
| Overview hospitals | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital 1 | Hospital 2 | Hospital 3 | Hospital 4 | Hospital 5 | Hospital 6 | Hospital 7 | Total | ||
| Urbanization | Urban | Urban | Inner-city | Urban | Urban | Inner-city | Urban | -- | |
| Geographic region | Middle | South-west | North-West | Middle | South | West | South East | -- | |
| Population served | 460,000 | 500,000 | n/a | n/a | 250.000 | n/a | 280.000 | -- | |
| Hospital bedsb | 955c | 545 | 555 | 663 | 696 | 654 | 479 | 479–955 c | |
| Total admissionsb | 26,784 | 26,957 | 26,022 | 31,563 | 28,988 | 38,861 | 23.553 | 202.728 | |
| ED admissions of total hospital admissions (%)b | 46.2 | 35.9 | 30.1 | 28.6 | 38.0 | 32.0 | 38.0 | 35.2 | |
| Mean length hospital stay (days)b | 5.4 | 5.1a | 5.0 | 4.5a | 4.8 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 4.3–5.4 | |
| ED | Total patients per yearb | 36.721 | 28.234 | 48.978 | 24.365 | 32.132 | 43.362 | 26.661 | 240.453 |
| Total of ED admissionsb | 12.383 | 9.678 | 7.822 | 9.030 | 11.027 | 12.449 | 8.961 | 71.350 | |
| ED admissions of total ED presentations (%)b | 33.7 | 34.3 | 16.0 | 37.1 | 34.3 | 28.7 | 33.6 | 29.7 | |
| EP present 24/7 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | - | |
| ECAP | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | - | |
| Triage System | MTS | ESI | ESI | MTS | NTS | MTS+ | MTS | - | |
aN/A in year report, calculated (Known admissions and length of hospital stay), btable presenting numbers of the year 2012, calso includes daycare beds
MTS stands for Manchester triage system, ESI for Emergency Severity Index and NTS for Netherlands Triage Standard