{"id":6295,"date":"2022-01-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6295"},"modified":"2022-01-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T17:00:00","slug":"quickstats-distribution-of-emergency-department-visits-made-by-adults-by-age-and-number-of-chronic-conditions-united-states-2017-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2022\/01\/07\/6295\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Distribution of Emergency Department Visits\u00a0Made by Adults, by Age and Number of Chronic Conditions\u00a0\u2014 United States, 2017\u20132019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/figures\/mm7101a6-F.gif?_=03147\" alt=\"\" width=\"-200\" height=\"-127\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>During 2017\u20132019, 38.5% of adult emergency department visits were made by patients with no chronic conditions, 22.9% made by those with one, 15.3% made by those with two, and 23.3% made by those with three or more chronic conditions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The percentage of adult emergency department visits made by patients with no chronic conditions or one chronic condition decreased with age, from 58.0% among patients aged 18\u201344 years to 8.5% among patients aged \u226575 years with no chronic conditions and from 24.4% among patients aged 18\u201344 years to 18.5% among patients aged \u226575 years with one chronic condition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast, the percentage of visits by patients with two or three or more chronic conditions increased with age, from 10.5% among patients aged 18\u201344 years to 20.8% among patients aged \u226575 years with two conditions and from 7.1% among patients aged 18\u201344 years to 52.1% among patients aged \u226575 years with three or more chronic conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The National Center for Health Statistics, National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2017\u20132019.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/ahcd\/ahcd_questionnaires.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/ahcd\/ahcd_questionnaires.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7101a6.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7101a6.htm<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2017\u20132019, 38.5% of adult emergency department visits were made by patients with no chronic conditions, 22.9% made by those with one, 15.3% made by those with two, and 23.3% made by those with three or more chronic conditions. The percentage of adult emergency department visits made by patients with no chronic conditions or one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59415,62281,61990,62294,63683,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295"}],"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=6295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}