EMERGENCY ROOM VISITS
Association between underweight and hospitalization, emergency room visits, and mortality among patients in community medical homes
... In this retrospective cohort study of 21,019 subjects $ 60 years of age within a primary care medical home, we observed that underweight subjects (BMI , 18.5) were 1.6 times more likely to be hospitalized within a year ...
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Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Effect of Ozone and Fine Particulate on CVD Emergency Room Visits in Harris County, Texas
... ER visits, this study investigates the relationship both temporally and ...million emergency room visits (versus 6812) including visits by those who did not call 911, spatially ...
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Age, Race and Gender Spatiotemporal Disparities of COPD Emergency Room Visits in Houston, Texas
... COPD emergency room (ER) visits in Harris County (Houston) can guide these efforts in a uniform yet diverse setting like this ...COPD emergency room visits ad- justed by age, ...
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Predictors of emergency room visits or acute hospital admissions prior to death among hospice palliative care clients in Ontario: a retrospective cohort study
... the emergency room in the last 6 months of ...these visits resulted in hospital admissions. The primary reasons for emergency room visits included pain and shortness of breath ...
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Effectiveness of a Regional Poison Center in Reducing Excess Emergency Room Visits for Children's Poisonings
... poisoning episodes were considered, the regional poison center was found to reduce significantly pediatric visits to emergency rooms.. Of parents who did not call the.[r] ...
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The Effects of PM2.5 from Asian Dust Storms on Emergency Room Visits for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases
... with the desertification of China’s Inner Mongolia, a global increase in droughts, and the uneven distribution of rain. These increases in both the frequency and severity of ADS have impacted Taiwan [1], worsening air ...
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Extreme precipitation and emergency room visits for influenza in Massachusetts: a case-crossover analysis
... Established variation in influenza susceptibility and inci- dence by age, gender, race, temperature, and season led us to evaluate these factors as potential effect modifiers of the association between extreme ...
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Pediatric Emergency Room Visits: A Risk Factor for Acquiring Measles
... measles patients and 128 control patients, who visited these emergency rooms, were enrolled in case-control studies.. Control patients were matched to case patients for ethnicity, age, a[r] ...
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Estimates of the global burden of ambient PM2.5, ozone, and NO2 on asthma incidence and emergency room visits
... We also transferred pooled risk estimates and asthma ERV rates to countries with no data, though the meta-analyses used represented a variety of countries on all populated continents except Africa, and ERV rates were ...
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Patient Response Toward a Change in the System of Health Care Delivery
... ed: total number of appointments scheduled, the number of nonurgent medical emergency room visits, the number of “walk-ins” (I.e.,.. appointments not made) , cancellations, and.[r] ...
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Recurrent Episodes of Asthma in a 10 Year Old
... on emergency room visits for childhood asthma concluded that a written management plan that guides parents on early intervention at home for asthma flare-ups is strongly associated with a reduced ...
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A comparison of medication adherence/persistence for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the United Kingdom
... Adherence to prescribed therapy has been shown to have an association with rP Fo disease outcomes in respiratory disease, resulting in lower rates of emergency room visits and hospitalis[r] ...
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Allergic rhinitis: the “Ghost Diagnosis” in patients with asthma
... Among subjects with AR, subjects with more severe AR symptoms are more likely to suffer from asthma, and potentially more severe asthma, than subjects with- out AR or those with milder AR [29]. For example, the DREAMS ...
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A Randomized Trial of A.C.T. (Asthma Care Training) for Kids
... Despite the fact the treatment groups were ran- domly constituted, the number of emergency room visits in the year previous to the initiation of the program among children in the control[r] ...
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Pattern of Acute Asthma Seen in Children Emergency Department of the River State University Teaching Hospital Portharcourt Nigeria
... of emergency room visits and hospitalizations in ...of emergency department visits for acute exacerbation of ...the emergency department register of all asthma admissions in the ...
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of Prenatal Pediatric Visits for Urban, Low-income Families
... Types and number of health maintenance visits, acute care clinic visits, and emergency room visits were recorded.. Finally, outcomes concerning the relationship between the mother and pe[r] ...
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Ozone is associated with cardiopulmonary and stroke emergency hospital visits in Reykjavík, Iceland 2003–2009
... daily emergency hospital visits were Poisson distributed, allowing for ...all emergency hospital visits (emergency room visits and acute hospital admissions), and ...
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Delivery of Emergency Care to Children: Who Is Responsible?
... The annual number of emergency room visits in the.. United States continues to increase progressively, and there.[r] ...
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Health Services Utilization and Health Status of Insured versus Uninsured Nigerian Children with Sickle Cell Disease
... Data from the records of the one hundred randomly selected patients, fifty from each arm of insured and unin- sured children with SCD was recorded on the specially designed form. Socio-demographic information which ...
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Hospital use among patients with lung cancer complicated by bone metastases and skeletal-related events: a population-based cohort study in Denmark
... We assessed the number of inpatient hospital admissions, inpatient bed-days, hospital outpatient clinic visits, and emergency room visits using the DNRP. Hospital use was assessed for three ...
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