An after hours gp clinic in regional Australia: appropriateness of presentations and impact on local emergency department presentations

Table 4 Emergency Department and After Hours Clinic presentations pre and post commencement of the Clinic

	2 years prior to after hours clinic	2 years subsequent to after hours clinic
Non-urgent and semi-urgent presentations
Total numbers of people
Non-urgent presentations (Mean ± SD)	418.5 ± 9.19	245.5 ± 27.58*
Semi-urgent presentations (Mean ± SD)	3984.5 ± 47.38	3931.5 ± 81.32
As a percentage of the Bathurst Population**
Non-urgent presentations (Mean ± SD)	1.0 ± 0.03	0.6 ± 0.07*
Semi-urgent presentations (Mean ± SD)	9.9 ± 0.05	9.5 ± 0.30
Presentations by gender
Number (percentage) of non-urgent presentations by gender
Females	359 (42.9%)	208 (42.4%)
Males	478 (57.1%)	283 (57.6%)
Number (percentage) of after hours clinic presentations by gender***
Females		1205 (56.7%)
Males		920 (43.2%)

*Indicates value is significantly different (P < 0.05) to the corresponding value for the two years prior to the clinic opening
**Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics [19]
***Proportion of females to males significantly different (X² 41.45; P < 0.05) to their respective proportions in non-urgent presentations in the two years following the opening of the clinic

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