Table 2.

Admission rates (%) and total numbers of admitted patients (n) analysed for speciality groups and Emergency Severity Index (ESI)

Speciality	Admission ESI 1	Admission ESI 2	Admission ESI 3	Admission ESI 4	Admission ESI 5
All specialities	96% (n=2898)	80% (n=4162)	54% (n=25 333)	22% (n=10 321)	11% (n=1096)
Internal medicine	99% (n=777)	80% (n=1791)	62% (n=13 062)	35% (n=3016)	21% (n=208)
Trauma surgery	96% (n=874)	72% (n=260)	45% (n=3457)	13% (n=2054)	7% (n=260)
Neurology	93% (n=725)	86% (n=1844)	46% (n=3662)	28% (n=1588)	20% (n=139)
General surgery	93% (n=214)	78% (n=226)	57% (n=2690)	24% (n=1379)	11% (n=190)
Otorhinolaryngology	100% (n=13)	60% (n=70)	45% (n=822)	18% (n=970)	10% (n=151)
Urology	90% (n=9)	48% (n=45)	40% (n=872)	20% (n=714)	14% (n=75)
Orthopaedics	50% (n=2)	53% (n=10)	41% (n=329)	16% (n=546)	11% (n=113)
Gynaecology	100% (n=5)	58% (n=14)	29% (n=285)	16% (n=275)	6% (n=19)
Neurosurgery	95% (n=410)	84% (n=96)	68% (n=657)	54% (n=398)	54%(n=51)