Emergency department utilization
Emergency Department Utilization by Adolescents in the United States
... There are important limitations to our study. First, it is primarily descriptive, intended to provide the reader with a broad overview of emergency depart- ment use by adolescents. The data do not permit detailed ...
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Emergency Department Utilization Report to Decrease Visits by Pediatric Gastroenterology Patients
... The reports contained information on only those patients who were seen in the ED and discharged from the hospital, excluding those who required admission to the hospital or to observation. The reports included both ...
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Reduced Emergency Department Utilization by Patients With Epilepsy Using QI Methodology
... estimated by previous average claims paid data available during the study period at our institutions, which were as follows: $640 per visit per ED visit and $18 066 per unplanned hospitalization. We considered the ...
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Emergency department utilization by HIV-positive adults in the HAART era
... ED utilization among HIV- specific factors suggests that this factor should be further evaluated by infectious disease and emergency physicians as a target for preventing the need for emergency ...ED ...
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Rate, characteristics, and factors associated with high emergency department utilization
... Based on this two-ED study, in the Netherlands high ED utilization seems to be less of a problem than outlined in international literature. No major differences were found between FV and HFV. Both presented with ...
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Is Greater Continuity of Care Associated With Less Emergency Department Utilization?
... Despite the uncertain value of COC for children, managed care organizations nevertheless have em- phasized its role for patients and their families. Con- tinuity of primary care physicians, it is argued, will decrease ...
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The Effects of Access to Pediatric Care and Insurance Coverage on Emergency Department Utilization
... Approximately 77% of Yuma County’s children live in the city of Yuma, and the rest live in or near 8 smaller towns. The number of children in the smaller towns ranges from 340 (Dateland) to 5691 (San Luis). Compared with ...
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Children’s Health Insurance Status and Emergency Department Utilization in the United States
... Objectives. Emergency department (ED) overcrowding has become a national ...ED utilization for nonurgent problems at the national level after controlling for other confounding ...ED ...
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The Effect of Acute and Chronic Asthma Severity on Pediatric Emergency Department Utilization
... though it is not certain whether the primary source of these failures is the PCP or the family, it does suggest a failure to achieve the appropriate disease management. In our study, families of children with moderate or ...
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Association Between Infant Continuity of Care and Pediatric Emergency Department Utilization
... ED utilization, but this is the first study to evaluate this effect during infancy, when the bond between a family and a pediatrician is first being formed and ED utilization is at its highest ...
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Association Between Parental and Childhood Emergency Department Utilization
... ED utilization only in part; to date, there are no assessments in the literature of parental ED utiliza- tion itself as a potential risk factor for increased childhood ED ...ED utilization individually and ...
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Quality of Primary Care and Subsequent Pediatric Emergency Department Utilization
... To adjust for potential confounding by child and fam- ily characteristics, a multivariate, generalized, Poisson regression model was constructed. Because of significant interactions between the quality-of-care domains ...
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The emergency to home project: impact of an emergency department care coordinator on hospital admission and emergency department utilization among seniors
... This study showed no reduction in baseline admission rate, revisits at 30 days, readmissions at 30 days, or hos- pital LOS for seniors aged ≥ 65 seen by an EDCC, when compared with similar seniors not seen by an EDCC. ...
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Exploring the Factors Associated with Non-Urgent Emergency Department Utilization by Individuals with Mental Illness in Southwestern Ontario
... The high prevalence of mental illness in Canada has led to a strain on both the national economy and health care system (CMHA, 2015; MHCC, 2013b). EDs across Canada are the first line of health care for many, and are ...
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Decreasing Nonurgent Emergency Department Utilization by Medicaid Children
... appropriate utilization of a primary care provider for up to 3 months after the index ED ...care utilization for each en- rollee was tracked via Ohio Medicaid claims data throughout the four subsequent ...
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Frugal Innovations Health Care Programs at the Community Level
... Hospital emergency department utilization was also monitored and managed at the community wide ...The utilization of hospital admissions per population was also ...
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Trends in Computed Tomography Utilization in the Pediatric Emergency Department
... visit. Head CT for patients with a sus- pected VPS malfunction was chosen as an internal control group in this study. The rates of imaging for these patients were not expected to change during the study period, because ...
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Cost and Utilization Analysis of a Pediatric Emergency Department Diversion Project
... and utilization analysis as this study does not consider health care ...service utilization and cost if service qual- ity and, most important, patient services are not im- proved or at least ...
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Utilization of Acupuncture Services in the Emergency Department Setting: A Quality Improvement Study
... the emergency department are accepting of acupuncture and, when provided acupuncture services for acute pain, experience significant decreases in pain, stress, anxiety, and ...
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Abdominal imaging utilization in the emergency department: trends over two decades
... CT utilization in other areas of the body (notably head CT in minor head injury [20] and chest CT for the evaluation of pulmonary embolism [21]) and other abdominal imaging modalities in the ...
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