Headaches in U.S. Hospitals and Emergency Departments, 2008

Excerpt

This Statistical Brief examines visits to the Emergency Department (ED) and inpatient stays for headache. For ED visits where headaches were the first-listed diagnosis, population rates, patient characteristics and discharge disposition are compared to ED visits for all diagnoses. Similar data with the addition of costs are presented for inpatient stays with a first-listed headache diagnosis and migraine. For each setting, figures highlight differences that were statistically significant. All differences between subgroup estimates noted in the text are statistically significant at the 0.05 level or better.