Trends and challenges of emergency and acute care in Chinese mainland: 2005-2017

Chang Pan, Jiao-jiao Pang, Kai Cheng, Feng Xu, Yu-guo Chen

Figure 1. Statistical graphs of changes in numbers of patients presenting to hospitals’ EDs and to pre-hospital emergency care in China. A: from 2007 to 2017, the number of ED visits tripled; the data before 2007 were not counted in China’s yearbooks; B: from 2009 to 2017, the utilization of pre-hospital emergency care increased by 113%; the data before 2009 were not counted in China’s yearbooks; C: from 2007 to 2017, the number of patients presenting to EDs of hospitals in the eastern, central, and western regions of China increased by 183%, 262% and 277%, respectively; EDs: emergency departments.