Who uses emergency departments inappropriately and when - a national cross-sectional study using a monitoring data system

Table 4 Number of inappropriate and appropriate attendances, and rate of inappropriate attendance by eight-hour time period

	Appropriate	Inappropriate	Rate of inappropriate attendance per 100 attendances	P
	n = 13,294,819	n = 1,761,276	Rate of inappropriate attendance per 100 attendances	P
00:00 to 07:59	1,513,580	144,416	8.71
08:00 to 15:59	6,655,458	915,453	12.09
16:00 to 23:59	5,125,781	701,407	12.04	<0.001