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Table 4 Proportion of Emergency Severity Index, Hospital admission, ICU admission, Medical resources utilization, stratified by Depression, NHAMCS 2014–2016

From: Analysis of emergency department visits for all reasons by adults with depression in the United States

 Unweighted SampleWeighted Sample
AllNo DepressionDepressionAllNo DepressionDepression
ESI score**
 1 (Immediate)239 (0.8)210 (0.8)29 (0.8)1,496,327 (0.8)1,272,228 (0.7)224,099 (1.0)
 2 (Emergent)3615 (11.6)2966 (10.9)649 (16.9)23,433,327 (11.8)19,516,968 (11.2)3,916,359 (16.8)
 3 (Urgent)15,392 (49.5)13,428 (49.3)1964 (51.0)97,000,149 (49.0)85,337,086 (48.8)11,663,063 (50.1)
 4 (Semi-urgent)10,051 (32.3)9037 (33.2)1014 (26.3)65,085,335 (32.9)58,899,226 (33.7)6,186,109 (26.6)
 5 (Non-urgent)1784 (5.7)1589 (5.8)195 (5.1)11,046,598 (5.6)9,768,544 (5.6)1,278,054 (5.5)
Hospital Admission5852 (13.7)4764 (12.6)1088 (21.4)36,388,538 (13.1)29,653,166 (12.0)6,735,373 (21.1)
ICU*698 (1.6)587 (1.6)111 (2.2)4,647,353 (1.7)3,833,519 (1.6)813,835 (2.6)
Death in ED or hospital201 (0.5)187 (0.5)14 (0.3)1,342,510 (0.5)1,224,939 (0.5)117,571 (0.4)
Left before/after triage*1085 (2.5)978 (2.6)107 (2.1)6,792,175 (2.4)6,134,329 (2.5)657,846 (2.1)
Blood test performed*21,958 (51.3)18,860 (50.0)3098 (60.8)142,656,097 (51.2)123,598,652 (50.1)19,057,445 (59.8)
Any imaging performed21,950 (51.2)19,494 (51.7)2456 (48.2)144,824,612 (52.0)128,979,436 (52.3)15,845,177 (49.7)
X-ray in ED15,099 (35.3)13,363 (35.4)1736 (34.1)99,429,274 (35.7)88,271,718 (35.8)11,157,556 (35.0)
CT in ED8414 (19.6)7392 (19.6)1022 (20.1)54,986,804 (19.7)48,528,197 (19.7)6,458,608 (20.3)
Ultrasound in ED2218 (5.2)2012 (5.3)206 (4.0)14,936,538 (5.4)13,580,831 (5.5)1,355,707 (4.3)
MRI in ED*446 (1.0)402 (1.1)44 (0.9)2,831,626 (1.0)2,594,364 (1.1)237,262 (0.7)
Other Imaging in ED604 (1.4)539 (1.4)65 (1.3)4,297,097 (1.5)3,896,319 (1.6)400,778 (1.3)
Procedure21,021 (49.1)18,626 (49.4)2395 (47.0)133,801,012 (48.0)119,211,149 (48.3)14,589,863 (45.8)
Waiting time (min, means [95% CI])41.1 (40.3–41.8)41.0 (40.2–41.8)41.7 (39.3–44.1)39.9 (39.2–40.6)39.8 (39.0–40.5)41.0 (38.9–43.2)
Visit length** (min, means [95% CI])245.6 (241.6–249.6)237.5 (233.4–241.6)309.1 (293.5–324.6)230.2 (226.7–233.8)224.8 (221.2–228.5)275.2 (262.4–288.0)
  1. Note: “Waiting time” is time from arrival to seeing the physician; “length of visit” is time from arrival to discharge. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01