Table 11_2_1-1

2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

Table 11_2_1.1
Emergency department (ED) visits in which patient was admitted to the hospital or transferred to another facility whose ED visit was 6 hours or more,^a United States, 2000–2001 and 2005–2006
Population group		2005–2006		2000–2001
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		28.4	1.3	25.9	1.2
Age	0–17	18.6	2.1	19.4	2.3
	18–44	33.9	1.6	28.4	1.6
	45–64	29.7	1.7	27.0	1.9
	65 and over	26.2	1.7	25.4	1.4
Race	White only	26.9	1.4	24.4	1.4
	Black only	34.1	1.8	34.5	1.8
	Asian only	31.4	3.9	20.8	3.6
	AI/AN only	*	*	*	*
	Multiple races	*	*	*	*
Gender	Male	26.8	1.4	25.0	1.5
Gender	Female	29.9	1.4	26.8	1.3
Payment source	Private	27.3	1.4	27.3	1.5
	Medicare	26.7	1.7	24.8	1.5
	Medicaid	28.9	2.0	28.4	2.1
	Uninsured	34.1	2.6	25.2	2.5
Location	MSA	30.7	1.3	28.5	1.3
Location	Non-MSA	13.1	2.7	13.7	2.1

^a The NHAMCS ED question is "Visit Disposition," where disposition is admit to hospital, admit to intensive care unit or critical care unit, or transfer to other facility.

* - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; MSA: metropolitan statistical area; SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 11_2_1-1: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/11_timeliness/T11_2_1-1.html