Table 2 Characteristics of patients visiting participating EDs in the control perioda
Study EDs | |||||||||
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Control period characteristics (1st January 2010 to first site visit) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Total |
Date of first site visit (month/year) | 7/13 | 5/13 | 2/13 | 10/12 | 5/13 | 5/13 | 10/12 | 9/13 | N/A |
Months in control period | 42 | 40 | 37 | 33 | 40 | 40 | 33 | 17 | N/A |
Average number of visits per month | 1991 | 1885 | 1747 | 5299 | 5525 | 2211 | 3496 | 4942 | 27,096 |
Presentations by Aboriginal people | |||||||||
 Average number per month | 132 | 167 | 389 | 104 | 176 | 91 | 60 | 227 | 1346 |
 % of all ED presentations | 6.6 | 8.9 | 22.3 | 2.0 | 3.2 | 4.1 | 1.7 | 4.6 | 5.1 |
Accuracy of recording of Aboriginality (%) | 77.6 | 79.1 | 87.2 | 61.4 | 72.6 | 77.4 | 45.5 | 79.6 | 76.0 |
Incomplete visits in Aboriginal people (%) | 7.6 | 9.6 | 6.5 | 16.9 | 14.8 | 20.6 | 24.9 | 9.6 | 11.5 |
Sex | |||||||||
 Male (%) | 45.2 | 50.3 | 48.7 | 44.2 | 46.4 | 52.5 | 65.8 | 46.9 | 48.7 |
 Female (%) | 54.8 | 49.7 | 51.3 | 55.8 | 53.6 | 47.5 | 34.2 | 53.1 | 51.3 |
Age (years) | |||||||||
 0–14 | 31.5 | 34.6 | 35.7 | 21.9 | 13.9 | 29.3 | 0.2 | 25.0 | 27.8 |
 15–29 | 33.3 | 31.3 | 27.1 | 33.4 | 26.4 | 30.1 | 22.8 | 33.9 | 29.4 |
 30–44 | 18.1 | 17.2 | 19.4 | 20.0 | 25.5 | 21.0 | 42.7 | 19.9 | 21.0 |
 45–59 | 12.0 | 10.8 | 13.2 | 14.6 | 22.4 | 13.7 | 27.9 | 13.8 | 14.9 |
 60–74 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 7.6 | 9.5 | 4.6 | 5.3 | 6.1 | 5.6 |
 75+ | 0.4 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 2.6 | 2.3 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.2 |
 Average (SD) | 25.4 (18.3) | 25.3 (19.2) | 25.2 (19.1) | 30.5 (20.6) | 36.2 (19.7) | 27.4 (19.0) | 40.4 (13.0) | 28.3 (19.3) | 28.3 (19.6) |