Weekly Emergency Visits for Non-Urgent Triage Levels in Alberta Local Areas

132 Local Geographic Areas in Alberta provide a time profile of semi-urgent and non-urgent emergency visits by weekday for fiscal year 2017/2018. The dataset is part of the Alberta Health Primary Health Care - Community Profiles report published in March 2019.

Use Cases

• Analyze patterns in semi-urgent and non-urgent emergency visit volumes by day of the week across 132 Local Geographic Areas.
• Model healthcare utilization for CTAS levels 4 and 5 using the time profile data to forecast weekday demand.
• Compare non-urgent triage level visit frequencies between different Local Geographic Areas like Lacombe, Red Deer, or Calgary West Bow.

Strengths

• Covers 132 distinct Local Geographic Areas within Alberta.
• Focuses on specific Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) levels 4 and 5.
• Provides a defined temporal scope for fiscal year 2017/2018.

Limitations

• Excludes the most urgent triage levels (CTAS 1-3), limiting analysis of full emergency department acuity.
• Sample data and row/column counts are unavailable, obscuring dataset scale and structure.
• Data is from a single fiscal year and may not reflect current trends or seasonal variations.

Provenance

Source

Government of Alberta, part of Alberta Health Primary Health Care - Community Profiles report.

Collection Method

Administrative healthcare data categorized by the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS).

Time Range

Fiscal year 2017/2018.

Freshness

Data is from fiscal year 2017/2018, though metadata was updated in March 2026.

Geography

132 Local Geographic Areas within Alberta, Canada.