National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 1996 Emergency Department Summary Advance Data 293. An estimated 90.3 million visits were made to hospital emergency departments (EDs) of non- Federal, short-stay, or general hospitals according to a recent report from the National Center for Health Statistics. This report entitled "National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 1996 Emergency Department Summary" presents data on ED visits from the 1996 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. This survey is a national probability survey conducted by the Division of Health Care Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Data Highlights: Persons 75 years of age and over had higher ED visit rates (54.2 visits per 100 persons) than persons in the other five age categories. Approximately 34.9 million ED visits were caused by injuries - about 13.2 visits per 100 persons. Violence-related visits accounted for 6.0 percent of all injury-related ED visits. ED utilization for black persons was 84 percent higher than for white persons overall. Stomach and abdominal pain, and cramps and spasms were the most frequently mentioned principal reasons for visits to the ED. Approximately 11 percent of ED visits resulted in a hospital admission. Keywords: emergency department visits, diagnoses, injury, ICD-9-CM
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