Table 13_2_1-1

2009 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 13_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 2006–2007
		2006–2007		2000–2001
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		29.2	1.1	25.9	1.2
Age	0–17	23.5	2.5	19.4	2.3
	18–44	32.8	1.5	28.4	1.6
	45–64	31.2	1.5	27.0	1.9
	65 and over	26.7	1.3	25.4	1.4
Race	White only	27.3	1.7	24.4	1.4
	Black only	36.7	2.4	34.5	1.8
	Asian only	28.5	5.0	20.8	3.6
	AI/AN only	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Multiple races	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Gender	Male	29.0	1.2	25.0	1.5
Gender	Female	29.5	1.2	26.8	1.3
Payment source	Private	28.7	1.3	27.3	1.5
	Medicare	27.2	1.4	24.8	1.5
	Medicaid	30.5	1.6	28.4	2.1
	Uninsured	33.1	2.5	25.2	2.5
Location	MSA	31.4	1.1	28.5	1.3
Location	Non-MSA	14.8	2.3	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.

DSU - 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 March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 13_2_1-1: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/13_timeliness/T13_2_1-1.html