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NSW emergency departments failed to meet length-of-stay targets during the winter flu seasons of 2010-14, with more patients waiting longer to be seen and increased numbers giving up on treatment, a study has found.The study of 11 million presentations to 115 NSW hospitals during the five-year period looked at the relationship between weekly flu activity and the number of people who stayed longer than four hours (a national benchmark) at a hospital emergency department.
UNSW School of Public Health and Community Medicine’s Dr David Muscatello presented the findings at the Communicable Diseases Control Conference in Melbourne
