Emergency Department
Visit 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