Table 5:

Emergency department visits that ended with patients leaving without being seen or against medical advice and that resulted in return visits within 3 days of discharge, by disposition of return visit^*

Disposition	No. (%) of visits		p value
	First Nations patients n = 16 879	Non–First Nations patients n = 77 449
Admission	920 (5.5)	4696 ( 6.1)	< 0.01
Discharge	13 196 (78.2)	64 777 (83.6)	< 0.001
Transfer to another health care facility	255 (1.5)	1192 (1.5)	0.81
Left without being seen or against medical advice	2508 (14.9)	6784 (8.8)	< 0.001

^*Fewer than 20 patients died in the emergency department on return to the emergency department; these data were suppressed because of small cell counts.