health care statistics....

Emergency DepartmentVisit Data
Annual Number of Visits to Hospital Emergency Departments: United States, 1992-2005
Data from the 2005 NHAMCS
The following figures were excerpted from:
Nawar EW, Niska RW, Xu J. National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2005 Emergency Department Summary. Advance data from vital and health statistics; no. 386. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2007.
Figure 1. Trends in numbers of emergency departments and related visits: United States, 1995-2005
Figure 2. Trends in emergency department visit rates by patient age: United States, 1995-2005
Figure 3. Annual rate of emergency department visits by patient age, race, and ethnicity: United States, 2005
Figure 4. Annual rate of emergency department visits by expected source payment: United States, 2005
Figure 5. Number of ambulance transports to emergency departments: United States, 1995-2005



U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICESCenters for Disease Control and PreventionNational Center for Health StatisticsHyattsville, MD207821-800-232-4636
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these statistics are scary and our country needs to do something about it fast, or we will continue to get worse health care provided and continue down the path to debt and illness. I know that this blog does not show the carts but the link does and the blog outlines the charts on the link. It is rediculous how much our country spends on health care, yet the citizens never actually see the improvements.