Definition: Percentage of emergency department visits among children ages 0-17 for the 11 most common primary diagnoses (e.g., in 2020, 3.2% of emergency department visits among California children were for a primary diagnosis of asthma/bronchitis).
Data Source: California Dept. of Health Care Access and Information custom tabulation (Feb. 2021).
Footnote: Data are based on visits, not children; if a child has more than one visit, each visit is reported. Visits resulting in same-hospital admission are not reported here (see kidsdata.org's Hospital Discharges indicators). County-level data reflect the patient's county of residence, not the county in which the visit occurred. Cases with unknown county of residence are included in California totals. Data are excluded for cases of patients with erroneous birth dates. The notation S refers to numbers and percentages that have been suppressed because there were fewer than 11 visits for that primary diagnosis, and to percentages that have been suppressed because the value was less than 0.1%
