TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2007 emergency department summary
JO  - National health statistics reports
A1  - Niska, Richard
A1  - Bhuiya, Farida
A1  - Xu, Jianmin
SP  - 1
EP  - 31
VL  - 
IS  - 26
N2  - OBJECTIVE: This report presents data on U.S. emergency department (ED) visits in 2007, with statistics on hospital, patient, and visit characteristics. <br><br>METHODS: Data are from the 2007 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, which uses a national probability sample of visits to emergency departments of nonfederal general and short-stay hospitals in the United States. Sample data were weighted to produce annual national estimates. <br><br>RESULTS: In 2007, there were about 117 million ED visits in the United States. About 25 percent of visits were covered by Medicaid or the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). About one-fifth of ED visits by children younger than 15 years of age were to pediatric EDs. There were 121 ED visits for asthma per 10,000 children under 5 years of age. The leading injury-related cause of ED visits was unintentional falls. Two percent of visits resulted in admission to an observation unit. Electronic medical records were used in 62 percent of EDs.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2164-8344
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -