Table 13_2_1-3b

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_1.3b
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 source of payment,^b United States, 2007-2008
				Source of payment
				Under age 65						Age 65 and over
		Total		Private		Public		Uninsured		Medicare and private		Medicare and Medicaid		Medicare only
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		29.4	1.2	28.8	1.5	33.3	1.8	28.0	2.5	25.4	1.8	25.9	2.9	30.4	1.9
Age	0-17	25.3	2.5	24.7	3.5	27.8	3.4	DNA	DNA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
	18-44	30.4	1.6	27.5	1.9	35.8	3.1	28.0	3.0	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
	45-64	32.0	1.6	30.7	1.9	33.2	2.1	26.7	3.4	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
	65 and over	27.7	1.4	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	25.4	1.8	25.9	2.9	30.4	1.9
Gender	Female	30.3	1.4	30.6	2.0	34.3	2.2	34.2	3.8	26.0	2.3	25.0	3.4	30.9	2.2
Gender	Male	28.4	1.3	27.0	1.7	32.3	2.2	23.5	2.9	24.5	2.4	27.2	4.3	29.7	2.6
Location of hospital	Metropolitan	31.7	1.3	30.6	1.6	36.5	2.0	DNA	DNA	28.2	2.0	DNA	DNA	32.1	1.9
Location of hospital	Nonmetropolitan	15.2	2.4	16.5	2.9	14.4	3.2	DNA	DNA	12.7	3.2	DNA	DNA	19.9	5.7

^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 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.

DNA - Data have not been analyzed.

NA - Not applicable.

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 Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) and National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS).

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: Table 13_2_1-3b: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/13_timeliness/T13_2_1-3b.html