Fact Based List:
Emergency Room Health Statistics, 2007
Submitted by Spencer Rinkus on Wed, 09/08/2010 - 13:59
- There were 39.4 ER annual visits per 100 persons.
- There were 88.5 ER annual visits per 100 U.S. infants.
- Persons aged 75 years and over had an annual ER visit rate of 62.0 visits per 100 persons.
- There were about 222 visits to U.S. ERs every minute.
- Annual ER visits increased 23% from 1996 to 2007.
- 2% of visits resulted in admission to an observation unit.
Source: CDC. National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2007 Emergency Department Summary National Health Statistics Reports.
Source URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr026.pdf
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