Table 3. Delays in Arrival by hospital, sex, age, SATS category, diagnosis and outcome during the period 2013–2015.
| Gondama | Kunduz | Martissant | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ≤ 24hrs | >24hrs | Total | ≤ 24hrs | >24hrs | Total | ≤ 24h | >24hrs | Total | |||||||
| n | % | n | % | N | n | % | n | % | N | n | % | n | % | N | |
| Total | 167 | 3.6 | 4,480 | 96.4 | 4,647 | 30,175 | 74.5 | 10,304 | 25.5 | 40,479 | 38,257 | 76.7 | 11,639 | 23.3 | 49,896 |
| Sex | |||||||||||||||
| Female | 74 | 3.6 | 1,998 | 96.4 | 2,072 | 6,473 | 68.4 | 2,984 | 31.6 | 9,457 | 15,929 | 73.8 | 5,651 | 26.2 | 21,580 |
| Male | 93 | 3.6 | 2,482 | 96.4 | 2,575 | 23,702 | 76.4 | 7,320 | 23.6 | 31,022 | 22,328 | 78.9 | 5,988 | 21.1 | 28,316 |
| Age Group* | |||||||||||||||
| 0 to 4 | 167 | 4.1 | 3,928 | 95.9 | 4,095 | 2,899 | 79.1 | 768 | 20.9 | 3,667 | 4,369 | 60.0 | 2,907 | 40.0 | 7,276 |
| 5 to 17 | 0 | - | 551 | 100.0 | 551 | 10,762 | 77.5 | 3,122 | 22.5 | 13,884 | 7,939 | 77.9 | 2,249 | 22.1 | 10,188 |
| 18 to 65 | 0 | - | 1 | 100.0 | 1 | 15,803 | 72.5 | 6,004 | 27.5 | 21,807 | 24,786 | 80.2 | 6,126 | 19.8 | 30,912 |
| Above 65 | - | - | - | - | - | 711 | 63.4 | 410 | 36.6 | 1,121 | 1,163 | 76.5 | 357 | 23.5 | 1,520 |
| SATS Category** | |||||||||||||||
| Red (Immediate) | 119 | 7.4 | 1,482 | 92.6 | 1,601 | 1,655 | 95.1 | 86 | 4.9 | 1,741 | 908 | 57.9 | 660 | 42.1 | 1,568 |
| Orange (<10) | 39 | 2.3 | 1,626 | 97.7 | 1,665 | 8,610 | 86.9 | 1,301 | 12.1 | 9,911 | 7,449 | 73.9 | 2,634 | 26.1 | 10,083 |
| Yellow (<60) | 7 | 0.7 | 992 | 99.9 | 999 | 14,768 | 73.6 | 5,290 | 26.4 | 20,058 | 19,004 | 79.4 | 4,919 | 20.6 | 23,923 |
| Green (<240) | 2 | 0.6 | 355 | 99.4 | 357 | 4,909 | 57.5 | 3,625 | 41.5 | 8,534 | 10,869 | 76.0 | 3,424 | 24.0 | 14,293 |
| Blue | 0 | 0.0 | 25 | 100.0 | 25 | 233 | 99.1 | 2 | 0.9 | 235 | 27 | 93.1 | 2 | 6.9 | 29 |
| Diagnosis | |||||||||||||||
| Trauma | 1 | 1.5 | 67 | 98.5 | 68 | 30,171 | 74.5 | 10,302 | 25.5 | 40,473 | 29,003 | 86.6 | 4,496 | 13.4 | 33,499 |
| Non-trauma | 166 | 3.6 | 4,413 | 96.4 | 4,579 | 4 | 66.7 | 2 | 33.3 | 6 | 9,254 | 56.4 | 7,143 | 43.6 | 16,397 |
| Outcome | |||||||||||||||
| Admitted | 164 | 4.4 | 3,573 | 95.6 | 3,737 | 4,084 | 83.3 | 817 | 16.7 | 4,901 | 257 | 35.1 | 476 | 64.9 | 733 |
| Died | 0 | 0.0 | 87 | 100.0 | 87 | 271 | 98.5 | 4 | 1.5 | 275 | 77 | 89.5 | 9 | 10.5 | 86 |
| Others† | 3 | 0.4 | 820 | 99.6 | 823 | 25,820 | 73.1 | 9,483 | 26.8 | 35,303 | 37,923 | 77.2 | 11,154 | 22.7 | 49,077 |
* Age reported in years.
** SATS Category: South African Triage Scale target time for treatment in minutes according to urgency code
† Others: cases who were referred to another facility, left the ED before consultation or were discharged home from the ED.