Data show overall ED visit rate 47 visits per 100 people in 2022

In 2022, the emergency division go to fee was 47 visits per 100 individuals, in response to an August information transient revealed by the Nationwide Middle for Well being Statistics.

Christopher Cairns, M.P.H., from the Nationwide Middle for Well being Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, and colleagues used information from the 2022 Nationwide Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey to current traits of emergency division visits by age group, intercourse, race and ethnicity, cost supply, and point out of COVID-19.

The researchers discovered that in 2022, the general emergency division go to fee was 47 visits per 100 individuals. Emergency division go to charges have been highest for infants youthful than 1 12 months and adults aged 75 years and older (99 and 76 visits per 100 infants and folks, respectively).

Among the many chosen racial and ethnic teams, the emergency division go to fee for Black or African American non-Hispanic individuals was the best (91 visits per 100 individuals).

The bottom emergency division go to fee was seen for sufferers with non-public insurance coverage in contrast with all different major anticipated sources of cost that have been thought of; the best fee was seen for sufferers with Medicaid or the Youngsters’s Well being Insurance coverage Program. A COVID-19 analysis was confirmed for 4.8 p.c of all emergency division affected person visits in 2022.

“In 2022, there have been an estimated 155 million emergency division visits in the US, with a complete emergency division go to fee of 47 visits per 100 individuals,” the authors write.

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