Table T4_2_1_1-2_1

2012 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

This appendix provides detailed data tables for all measures analyzed for the 2012 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. Tables are included for measures discussed in the main text of the reports as well as for other measures that were examined but not included in the main text.

Table 4_2_1_1.2_1
Emergency department visits triaged as urgent at which patients waited to see a physician for 1 hour or more, United States, 2008–2009 and 2009–2010
		2009–2010			2008–2009
Population group		Number of visits (in thousands)	Percent	SE	Number of visits (in thousands)	Percent	SE
Total		50,399	31.0	1.1	21,564	30.7	1.4
Age	0–17	9,165	27.4	1.5	4,543	28.9	2.1
	18–44	20,032	34.0	1.3	8,611	32.9	1.8
	45–64	11,940	31.8	1.4	4,733	32.0	1.7
	65 and over	9,262	27.0	1.3	3,677	26.2	1.9
Gender	Female	28,919	32.5	1.2	12,150	31.9	1.6
Gender	Male	21,480	28.9	1.1	9,414	29.2	1.5
Race^a	White	36,964	28.3	1.1	15,546	29.3	1.4
Race^a	Black	11,275	39.4	1.7	4,849	35.8	2.7
Ethnicity^a	Non-Hispanic, all races	43,574	30.6	1.1	18,343	30.2	1.4
	Non-Hispanic, White	30,938	27.6	1.2	13,108	28.8	1.4
	Non-Hispanic, Black	10,891	39.1	1.8	4,538	35.2	2.6
	Hispanic, all races	6,824	33.5	1.6	3,221	33.6	2.6
Location	Metropolitan	42,798	33.0	1.2	18,065	32.8	1.6
Location	Nonmetropolitan	7,601	19.9	2.5	3,499	20.1	2.8
Payment source, age under 65^b	Private	16,046	29.7	1.4	7,871	28.4	1.8
	Public	14,165	32.8	1.2	5,394	33.3	1.8
	Uninsured	7,549	34.7	1.8	2,875	34.6	2.5
Payment source, age 65 and over	Medicare and private	4,432	25.9	1.8	1,677	26.5	2.7
	Medicare and Medicaid	1,228	31.7	2.6	428	25.6	4.6
	Medicare only	3,188	26.7	1.8	1,384	24.4	2.6

^a Race and ethnicity data have missing values each year that are imputed. See dataset documentation available at http://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Dataset_Documentation/NHAMCS for details.

^b Public insurance includes Medicare, Medicaid, and State children's health insurance program. No insurance is defined as having only "self-pay" or "no charge/charity" as payment sources.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.

Page last reviewed June 2013

Internet Citation: Table T4_2_1_1-2_1: 2012 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. June 2013. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr12/4_timeliness/T4_2_1_1-2_1.html