Table 1.

Demographic characteristics for ED visits for burn related injuries for the 6-year study period

	Encounter With Transfer (N = 108,583)		Encounter Without Transfer (N = 2,939,117)		Total (N = 3,047,701)
	N	(%)	N	(%)	N
Age (mean, SD)	43	(17)	40	(17)	40 (17)
Age
18–34	26,307	2.7%	965,205	97.3%	991,512
35–44	12,099	2.9%	404,548	97.1%	416,647
45–54	13,587	3.5%	377,725	96.5%	391,312
55–64	9039	3.8%	227,150	96.2%	236,189
65–74	5486	4.4%	117,965	95.6%	123,451
75–84	2742	4.5%	58,714	95.5%	61,456
>84	1148	4.6%	24,065	95.4%	25,214
Sex
Male	50,952	4.3%	1,140,348	95.7%	1,191,300
Female	19,426	1.8%	1,034,407	98.2%	1,053,833
Primary Payer
Medicare	12,835	3.8%	321,646	96.2%	334,481
Medicaid	9998	2.4%	407,500	97.6%	417,497
Self Pay	17,410	3.5%	476,516	96.5%	493,927
Other	9762	3.0%	313,329	97.0%	323,091
Private	20,158	3.0%	649,456	97.0%	669,614
Burns of Eye / Face / Head/ Neck / Airway / Wrists or Hands
No	23,230	2.1%	1,098,399	97.9%	1,121,629
Yes	47,178	4.2%	1,076,973	95.8%	1,124,152
Region of hospital
Northeast	7844	1.8%	425,629	98.2%	433,474
Midwest	20,697	3.8%	522,965	96.2%	543,662
South	30,199	3.4%	866,955	96.6%	897,154
West	11,668	3.1%	359,823	96.9%	371,491
Teaching status of hospital
Metropolitan non-teaching	28,144	3.3%	829,619	96.7%	857,763
Metropolitan	19,890	2.2%	896,794	97.8%	916,684
Non-metropolitan hospital	22,374	4.7%	448,959	95.3%	471,333
Trauma level designation
Non-Trauma	54,826	3.4%	1,540,201	96.6%	1,595,027
Trauma	14,587	2.4%	584,081	97.6%	598,668
Year
2009	11,156	3.0%	363,001	97.0%	374,157
2010	11,316	2.9%	375,079	97.1%	386,395
2011	11,898	3.3%	352,311	96.7%	364,209
2012	11,860	3.1%	368,649	96.9%	380,508
2013	11,948	3.3%	349,133	96.7%	361,081
2014	12,231	3.2%	367,199	96.8%	379,430