All Emergency Visit for Patients Residing in the Local Geographic Area (LGA) for Triage Le

132 local geographic areas in Alberta are covered, providing a time profile of emergency department visits by day of the week. The data includes semi-urgent (level 4) and non-urgent (level 5) triage levels according to the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale for the fiscal year 2011/2012. This table is part of the 'Alberta Health Primary Health Care - Community Profiles' report published in February 2013 by the Government of Alberta.

Use Cases

• Modeling weekly patterns in emergency department visits based on the day-of-week and time-of-day data.
• Analyzing healthcare access and utilization for non-urgent care based on the local geographic area (LGA) breakdown.
• Comparing patient volumes for triage levels 4 and 5 across different regions in Alberta.

Strengths

• Data is aggregated for 132 distinct local geographic areas within Alberta, allowing for regional analysis.
• Uses the standardized Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) for consistent severity categorization.
• Time profile includes breakdown by day of the week for a full fiscal year (2011/2012).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from fiscal year 2011/2012; freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

Government of Alberta

Collection Method

Likely collected from hospital emergency department records and aggregated by Alberta Health and Alberta Health Services.

Time Range

Fiscal year 2011/2012

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-02 12:41:56.430381; freshness should be verified

Geography

Alberta, Canada, broken into 132 local geographic areas (e.g., Lacombe, Red Deer, Calgary West Bow)