Emergencies: patients' provenance 2013

This graph shows a breakdown of patients arriving at the emergency department in France in 2013, according to the place where they were before being transferred to the hospital. That year, about two-thirds of the patients were at home before going to the emergency room.

Breakdown of patients arriving at the emergency department in France in 2013, by origin

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Home	65%
Public way, workplace or school	19%
Health institution	1%
Medico-social structure	2%
Medical home guard	0%
Other provenance	3%
Non-response and other*	9%

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Release date

July 2014

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Region

France

Survey time period

June 11 to 12, 2013

Number of respondents

52,000 respondents

Special properties

Whole France ; patients who showed up at the 736 emergency reception points

Method of interview

Questionnaire

Supplementary notes

The data come from the National Survey of Hospital Emergency Structures. This study is conducted irregularly by the Directorate of Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics (DREES) and the Ministry of Health. The last survey was carried out between 8:00 am on June 11, 2013 and 8:00 am the next day with all the patients having presented themselves to the emergency services in all structures authorized for this activity in Metropolitan France and in the DOM. br> * The source adds the following information: "Non-response includes patients who could not answer. Percentage points below 100% are probably due to a rounding of values.

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