Chronic Disease Emergency Room Visits Indicator

Chronic Disease Emergency Room Visits measures the rate at which St. Louis residents visit emergency rooms for treatment of a chronic disease per 1,000 residents

Latest Measure (2015)

Chronic Disease Emergency Room Visits Score 31 Indicator scores are represented on a scale from 1 to 100.
Disparity Ratio 3.48 Disparity direction: black-white
Emergency room visits for chronic disease per 1,000 residents

Black residents are more than three times as likely to visit an emergency room for suffering related to chronic disease as white residents.

Source: Missouri Department of Health and Social Services

Dates

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