The one Toolie that’s welcome at Schoolies
FollowOver 28,000 students will descend on the Gold Coast for the start of schoolies this week, and while the party may be chaos, emergency departments on the Gold Coast already know how many patients will be coming through the door.
Thanks to CSIRO technology hospitals will also know how serious the cases will be and if they will be admitted to hospital.
Dr James Lind, Director of Access and Patient Flow at Gold Coast Health says using CSIRO’s Patient Admission Prediction Tool (PAPT) has been crucial for dealing with big events such as Schoolies, helping to reduce waiting times and ensure schoolies get the best treatment where and when they need it.
“We know in this first week of the Schoolies festival there will be around 2700 presentations to our emergency department in total and around 20 per cent of these will be schoolies,