Table 2.

ED Interventions and Admissions for Encounters for Self-Transported Patients Compared to Encounters for Patients Transported by EMS and Police^*

	All Patient Encounters (n = 70,557)	Patient Encounters Who Self-Transported (n = 56,104)	Patient Encounters Transported by EMS (n = 10,299)	Patient Encounters Transported by Police (n = 4154)
Patient encounters who received pharmacologic restraint	2757 (3.9)	1721 (3.1)	734 (7.1)	302 (7.3)
Patient encounters who received mechanical restraint	1242 (1.8)	679 (1.2)	380 (3.7)	183 (4.4)
Patient encounters who received physical restraint	1942 (2.8)	1266 (2.3)	457 (4.4)	219 (5.3)
Admissions	33,865 (48.0)	26,112 (46.5)	5541 (53.8)	2212 (53.2)
PICU admissions	653 (0.9)	300 (0.5)	346 (3.4)	7 (0.2)

ED indicates emergency department; EMS, emergency medical services; and PICU, pediatric intensive care unit.

All reported values are n (% of the column).

^*All comparisons (self-transported vs emergency medical service and self-transported vs police) are statistically significant, P < 0.001.