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Cases were excluded if the: a) type of visit was a planned return visit, pre-arranged admission or patient in transit (n = 314,857); b) patient was dead on arrival (n = 20,274); c) patient did not wait to be attended by a healthcare professional (n = 909,012); c) hospital was others than public acute hospitals (e.g. specialised hospital—women or children hospitals) (n = 1,505,268); or d) waiting time to treatment was greater than eight hours (n = 2,957).
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