220EMF Variation and Condition-Specific Trends in Emergency Department Admission Rates, 2006-2014

Hospital-based expenditures account for one-third of U.S. health care costs. Our prior work shows a 20% increase in ED visits and 10% decline in ED admission rates from 2006-2014; however, the drivers of this shift from inpatient to outpatient care are unknown. We aim to describe condition-specific trends and hospital-level variation in ED admission rates. We retrospectively analyzed all adult ED visits to acute care hospitals from 2006-2014 in...