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What's up in American ERs? Here are some 2003 numbers (the latest year available) from the Centers for Disease Control: • Number of visits: 113.9
million
• Number of injury-related
visits: 40.2 million
• Number of visits per
100 persons: 39.9
• Most commonly diagnosed
condition: acute respiratory infection
• Percent of visits with
patient seen in less than 15 minutes: 21
• Average time spent in
emergency department: 3.2 hours
• Percent of visits resulting
in hospital admission: 14
• Percent of visits resulting
in intensive care unit or coronary care unit admission:
1.3 * * * * * What about Canadian ERs? Here are some stats from a September 14, 2005 press release from the Canadian Institute for Health Information: • 57% of patient visits
were for less-urgent or non-urgent conditions.
• More than 80% of patients
were discharged to their home or their place of residence;
only 11% needed to be admitted for further treatment
in hospital.
• Only .5% of visits were
by patients considered to be severely ill, requiring
life-saving interventions.
• 62% of ER visits in 2003–2004
were by patients aged 16 to 64.
• According to a 2004 survey,
38% of Canadians, 34% of Americans, and 30% of the
population in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK
had visited an ER in the past two years.
• Half of all ER patients
were seen by a physician within 51 minutes or less,
10% waited 10 minutes or less, and 10% waited three
hours or more.
• Patients were most likely
to go to an ER between 8am and 8pm, with 11am the
peak arrival time. The least busy time of day was
6am.
• According to statistics
from Ontario, hospitals in rural health regions have
a higher proportion of non-urgent cases seeking treatment
in ERs than hospitals in urban health regions.
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