Table 2.

Characteristics of selected rural ED: visits and transfers

	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	AVERAGE
Selected ED visits	13,531	13,524	13,827	12,883	12,942	13,341
Selected ED total patient transfers	456	433	395	448	488	444
	3.4%	3.2%	2.9%	3.5%	3.8%	3.3%
Selected ED patient transfers to rural referral hospital	131	145	129	156	177	148
	28.7%	33.5%	32.7%	34.8%	36.3%	33.2%
Selected ED transfers to rural referral hospital for a CT scan	101	116	108	140	158	125
	77.1%	80.0%	83.7%	89.7%	89.3%	84.0%