Table 2
Correlations with total emergency department occupancy, ambulance diversion, and proportion of patients not seen within threshold waiting times
| Variable | ED occupancy | Ambulance diversion | Proportion of patients not seen within TWT | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| r (95%CI) | p | r (95%CI) | p | r (95%CI) | p | |||||||
| LAP, low acuity patient, TWT, threshold waiting times. | ||||||||||||
| Access block ED occupancy | 0.96 (0.91 to 0.98) | <0.001 | 0.75 (0.49, 0.88) | <0.001 | 0.83 (0.65, 0.93) | <0.001 | ||||||
| Admissions | 0.60 (0.26 to 0.81) | 0.002 | 0.30 (−0.11, 0.63) | 0.16 | 0.53 (0.16, 0.77) | 0.008 | ||||||
| Discharges | −0.10 (−0.48 to 0.31) | 0.63 | −0.34 (−0.65, 0.07) | 0.11 | 0.06 (−0.35, 0.45) | 0.79 | ||||||
| LAP | 0.05 (−0.36 to 0.44) | 0.93 | 0.19 (−0.23, 0.55) | 0.38 | 0.01 (−0.39, 0.41) | 0.98 | ||||||
| Total attendances | 0.20 (−0.22 to 0.56) | 0.36 | −0.16 (−0.53, 0.26) | 0.45 | 0.46 (0.07, 0.73) | 0.02 | ||||||
| Sea surface temperature | −0.56 (−0.79 to 0.19) | 0.01 | −0.49 (−0.75, −0.10) | 0.02 | 0.37 (−0.04, 0.67) | 0.08 | ||||||
