{"id":5361,"date":"2020-12-11T10:15:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T15:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5361"},"modified":"2020-12-11T10:15:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T15:15:49","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-emergency-department-ed-visits-made-by-adults-with-influenza-and-pneumonia-that-resulted-in-hospital-admission-by-age-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/12\/11\/5361\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Emergency Department (ED) Visits Made by Adults with Influenza and Pneumonia That Resulted in Hospital Admission, by Age Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6949a6.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/figures\/mm6949a6-F.gif\" width=\"446\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During 2017\u20132018, 37.2% of ED visits for influenza and pneumonia by adults aged 18 years or older resulted in a hospital admission.<\/p>\n<p>The percentage increased with age from 14.4% for adults aged 18\u201354 years to 46.9% for adults aged 55\u201374 years and 69.7% for adults aged 75 years or older.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics. National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2017\u20132018.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/ahcd\/%20ahcd_questionnaires.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/ahcd\/ ahcd_questionnaires.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6949a6.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6949a6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2017\u20132018, 37.2% of ED visits for influenza and pneumonia by adults aged 18 years or older resulted in a hospital admission. The percentage increased with age from 14.4% for adults aged 18\u201354 years to 46.9% for adults aged 55\u201374 years and 69.7% for adults aged 75 years or older. Source:\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61990,91,63690,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}