{"id":7679,"date":"2024-10-04T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7679"},"modified":"2024-10-03T18:45:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T18:45:02","slug":"quickstats-rates-of-emergency-department-visits-for-children-and-adolescents-with-acute-upper-respiratory-infection-by-age-group-united-states-2021-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2024\/10\/04\/7679\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Rates of Emergency Department Visits for Children and Adolescents with Acute Upper Respiratory Infection, by Age Group \u2014 United States, 2021\u20132022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"order-4 w-100\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/73\/wr\/mm7339a5.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/73\/wr\/figures\/mm7339a5-F-medium.gif?_=86740\" width=\"471\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2021\u20132022, the rate for emergency department (ED) visits for children and adolescents with acute upper respiratory infection was 38.6 per 1,000 persons aged &lt;18 years.<\/p>\n<p>The ED visit rate was highest for infants aged &lt;1 year (120.5) and decreased by age, with the lowest rate among adolescents aged 12\u201317 years (14.4).<\/p>\n<p><b>Supplementary Table:<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.cdc.gov\/view\/cdc\/162215\">https:\/\/stacks.cdc.gov\/view\/cdc\/162215<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> National Center for Health Statistics, National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2021\u20132022.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/73\/wr\/mm7339a5.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/73\/wr\/mm7339a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021\u20132022, the rate for emergency department (ED) visits for children and adolescents with acute upper respiratory infection was 38.6 per 1,000 persons aged &lt;18 years. The ED visit rate was highest for infants aged &lt;1 year (120.5) and decreased by age, with the lowest rate among adolescents aged 12\u201317 years (14.4). Supplementary Table:\u00a0https:\/\/stacks.cdc.gov\/view\/cdc\/162215 Source:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53770,61990,62293,63673,63683,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679"}],"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\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7684,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679\/revisions\/7684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}