ER Stats

From the National Center for Health Statistics "FASTATS" Emergency Department Visits page, (Data are for U.S. for 2003)

Number of visits: 113.9 million

Number of injury-related visits: 40.2 million

Number of illness-related visits: 74 million

Number of visits per 100 persons: 38.9

Most commonly diagnosed condition: acute respiratory infection

Percent of visits with patient seen in less than 15 minutes: 22.3

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