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2011 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_1
Emergency department visits triaged as immediate or emergent at which patients waited to see a physician for 1 hour or more, per 10,000 population, United States, 2008-2009
Population group		Number of visits (in thousands)	Percent	SE
Total		8,356	16.6	1.6
Age	0-17	1,288	14.0	2.2
	18-44	2,734	20.0	2.4
	45-64	2,135	17.0	2.1
	65 and over	2,200	13.4	1.5
Gender	Female	4,290	17.6	1.8
Gender	Male	4,067	15.5	1.6
Race^a	White	6,312	15.7	1.8
Race^a	Black	1,825	20.6	2.2
Ethnicity	Non-Hispanic, all races	7,334	16.7	1.6
	Non-Hispanic, White	5,451	15.8	1.7
	Non-Hispanic, Black	1,711	20.1	2.3
	Hispanic, all races	1,022	16.0	3.1
Location	Metropolitan	6,744	17.3	1.8
Location	Nonmetropolitan	1,613	13.7	3.7
Payment source, age under 65^b	Private	2,890	15.6	2.6
	Public	1,827	20.7	2.6
	Uninsured	904	18.8	2.4
Payment source, age 65 and over	Medicare and private	1,029	12.7	2.4
	Medicare and Medicaid	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Medicare only	877	12.4	1.9

^a. Race data were missing for 11.2 percent of visits triaged immediate or emergent. Missing race data were singly imputed.

^b. 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: SE: standard error.

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

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T13_2_1_1_1: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/13_timeliness/T13_2_1_1_1.html