Adjacent Primary Care May Reduce Less Urgent Pediatric Emergency Department Visits
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Urgent Care and Emergency Department Visits in the Pediatric Medicaid Population.
BACKGROUND Urgent care (UC) is one of the fastest growing venues of health care delivery. We compared clinical and cost attributes of pediatric UC and emergency department (ED) visits that did not result in admission. METHODS Our study examined 5 925 568 ED and UC visits of children under 19 years old in the 2010 through 2012 Marketscan Medicaid Multi-State Database. Basic demographics, diagn...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2150-1327,2150-1327
DOI: 10.1177/2150132720926276