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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Reduce the proportion of emergency department visits with a longer wait time than recommended — AHS‑09 Data

Status: Little or no detectable change

  Little or no detectable change
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Most Recent Data:
20.5 percent (2021)

Target:
12.0 percent

Desired Direction:
Decrease desired

Baseline:
19.2 percent of persons had an emergency department wait time exceeding that recommended for any category in 2016

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Overall emergency department wait time exceeds recommended time frame, 2016-2021
(percent)
Decrease desired

Population 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Total
19.2
CI 16.0 / 22.8
SE 1.686
18.5
CI 14.7 / 22.9
SE 1.980
16.9
CI 13.8 / 20.4
SE 1.602
15.7
CI 12.2 / 19.6
SE 1.788
13.1
CI 9.8 / 17.1
SE 1.778
20.5
CI 15.2 / 26.6
SE 2.774