Wait time for treatment in hospital emergency departments, 2009

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• Description:
  KEY FINDINGS: From 2003 through 2009, the mean wait time in U.S. emergency departments (EDs) increased 25%, from 46.5 minutes to 58.1 minutes. Mean wait times were longer in EDs that went on ambulance diversion or boarded admitted patients in hallways and in other spaces. Longer wait times were associated with EDs in urban areas (62.4 minutes), compared with nonurban areas (40.0 minutes). The mean wait time increased as annual ED visit volume increased; from 33.8 minutes in EDs with less than 20,000 annual visits, to 69.8 minutes in EDs with 50,000 or more annual visits. There was no difference in mean wait time for patients needing immediate or emergent care by ambulance diversion status, or by whether the ED boarded admitted patients while waiting for an inpatient bed.
  
  CDC-INFO Pub ID 221366
  
  
• Content Notes:
  221366
  
  Esther Hing and Farida Bhuiya.
  
  Includes bibliographical references (p. 7-[8]).
  
  
• Subjects:
  Emergency Service, Hospital Time Factors Triage Utilization Waiting Lists
• Source:
  NCHS data brief ; no. 102 ; DHHS publication ; no. (PHS) 2012-1209
• Series:
  NCHS Data Briefs
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Statistics ; Report
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Topic:
  Health Statistics
• Pages in Document:
  print; 7, [1] p. : col. charts ; 28 cm.
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
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