Table 13_2_1-1

2010 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, 2007-2008
		2007-2008
Population group		Sample size	Number of visits (in thousands)	Percent	SE
Total		10,712	35,321	29.4	1.2
Age	0-17	805	2,733	25.3	2.5
	18-44	2,846	8,278	30.4	1.6
	45-64	3,026	10,144	32.0	1.6
	65 and over	4,035	14,166	27.7	1.4
Race^b	White only	7,853	27,040	27.7	1.4
	Black only	2,286	7,090	36.3	2.3
	Asian only	355	708	31.7	4.0
	NHOPI	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	AI/AN only	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Multiple races	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Gender	Male	5,090	16,892	28.4	1.3
Gender	Female	5,622	18,429	30.3	1.4
Payment source,^c under age 65	Private	2,584	9,041	28.8	1.5
	Public	2,607	7,033	33.3	1.8
	Uninsured	788	2,591	28.0	2.5
Payment source,^c age 65 and over	Medicare and private	1,681	5,895	25.4	1.8
	Medicare and Medicaid	489	1,453	25.9	2.9
	Medicare only	1,666	5,946	30.4	1.9
Location of hospital	Metropolitan	9,481	30,306	31.7	1.3
Location of hospital	Nonmetropolitan	1,231	5,015	15.2	2.4

^a Based on NHAMCS "visit disposition" data, where disposition includes admission to a hospital, intensive care unit, or critical care unit, or transfer to another facility. Length of visit is defined as time from arrival to time of discharge from emergency department.

^b Race data were missing for 15.5% of total visits. Missing race data were imputed. Standard errors for estimates by race were inflated as described in "2007 NAMCS Microdata File Documentation," ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Dataset_Documentation/NAMCS/doc07.pdf.

^c Payment source classified by all expected payment sources. Public insurance includes Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children's Health Insurance program. No insurance is defined as having only "self-pay" or "no charge/charity" as payment sources.

DSU - 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; SE: standard error.

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

Current as of February 2011

Internet Citation: Table 13_2_1-1: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. February 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/13_timeliness/T13_2_1-1.html