8.2% Of Emergency Room Patients Make Another Visit Within 3 Days
About 8.2% of adults who visited an emergency department (ED) from 2006 through 2010 made another ED visit within three days. About two-thirds of the repeat visits were to the same ED, and 32% were to a different hospital. Revisit rates were higher among people who first went to the ED at a public hospital, than among people who made initial ED visits to for-profit or non-profit hospitals, at 9.0% for the public hospital EDs, 8.3% at for-profit EDs, and 8.0% at non-profit EDs. Across all hospital organizational structures, the three . . .
