Emergency Department Visits

• Number of visits: 136.9 million
• Number of injury-related visits: 39.0 million
• Number of visits per 100 persons: 43.3
• Number of emergency department visits resulting in hospital admission: 12.3 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: 35.4%
• Percent of visits resulting in hospital admission: 9.0%
• Percent of visits resulting in transfer to a different (psychiatric or other) hospital: 2.2%

Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2015 Emergency Department Summary Tables, tables 1, 4, 15, 25, 26 [PDF – 676 KB]