Table 11_2_1-2

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_1.2
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 by race, United States, 2005–2006
Population group		Total		Single race										Multiple races
		Total		White		Black		Asian		NHOPI		AI/AN		Multiple races
		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		28.4	1.3	26.9	1.4	34.1	1.8	31.4	3.9	*	*	*	*	*	*
Age	0–17	18.6	2.1	16.8	2.2	25.8	5.3	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	18–44	33.9	1.6	33.3	1.8	34.8	2.9	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	45–64	29.7	1.7	27.4	2.0	37.1	2.8	41.3	6.4	*	*	*	*	*	*
	65 and over	26.2	1.7	25.3	1.8	32.7	3.5	29.0	6.6	*	*	*	*	*	*
Gender	Male	26.8	1.4	25.6	1.5	33.0	2.8	25.1	4.0	*	*	*	*	*	*
Gender	Female	29.9	1.4	28.2	1.7	35.2	2.4	37.6	5.9	*	*	*	*	*	*
Payment source	Private	27.3	1.4	26.3	1.6	31.9	3.2	28.1	6.7	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Medicare	26.7	1.7	25.6	1.8	34.4	3.5	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Medicaid	28.9	2.0	26.9	2.5	32.4	2.7	34.4	6.6	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Uninsured	34.1	2.6	32.3	2.9	39.2	4.6	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Residence location	MSA	30.7	1.3	29.5	1.4	35.2	1.9	32.5	4.0	*	*	*	*	*	*
Residence location	Non-MSA	13.1	2.7	12.7	2.9	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*

^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; NHOPI: Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; 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_1-2: 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_1-2.html