T13_2_1_1_2b

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_2b
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, by ethnicity, United States, 2008-2009
				Non-Hispanic
		Total		All races		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		16.6	1.6	16.7	1.6	15.8	1.7	20.1	2.3	16.0	3.1
Age	0-17	14.0	2.2	14.6	2.3	13.1	2.5	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	18-44	20.0	2.4	20.1	2.4	19.1	2.6	22.6	3.6	19.5	4.0
	45-64	17.0	2.1	16.8	2.2	15.9	2.4	20.9	3.5	DSU	DSU
	65 and over	13.4	1.5	13.8	1.5	13.7	1.7	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Gender	Female	17.6	1.8	15.8	3.9	16.5	2.0	21.8	2.8	17.9	1.9
Gender	Male	15.5	1.6	16.2	3.6	15.0	1.9	18.2	2.5	15.4	1.6

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_2b: 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_2b.html