Differences in demographic and triage category variables between control and lookup groups
| Control group (n) | Percentage | Lookup group (n) | Percentage | |
| Gender | ||||
| Female | 8477 | 48.6 | 4370 | 53.4 |
| Male | 8972 | 51.4 | 3814 | 46.6 |
| Ethnicity | ||||
| Māori | 5116 | 29.3 | 1831 | 22.4 |
| Pasifika | 904 | 5.2 | 288 | 3.5 |
| Other | 11 429 | 65.5 | 6065 | 74.1 |
| Triage category | ||||
| Resuscitation | 179 | 1.0 | 191 | 2.7 |
| Emergency | 1934 | 11.1 | 1943 | 23.7 |
| Urgent | 5935 | 34.0 | 3364 | 41.1 |
| Semiurgent | 7720 | 44.2 | 2441 | 29.8 |
| Non-urgent | 1681 | 9.6 | 245 | 3.0 |