Emergency Department Visits

• Number of visits: 130.4 million
• Number of injury-related visits: 37.2 million
• Number of visits per 100 persons: 41.9
• Number of emergency department visits resulting in hospital admission: 12.2 million
• Number of emergency department visits resulting in admission to critical care unit: 1.5 million
• Percent of visits with patient seen in fewer than 15 minutes: 29.8%
• Percent of visits resulting in hospital admission: 9.3%
• Percent of visits resulting in transfer to a different (psychiatric or other) hospital: 2.2%

Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2013 Emergency Department Summary Tables. Tables 1, 4, 14, 24 [PDF – 520 KB]