Dental-Related Use of Hospital Emergency Departments by Hispanics and Non-Hispanics in Florida
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Trends in dental-related use of hospital emergency departments in Florida.
OBJECTIVES The inability to access regular dental care may lead to care seeking at hospital emergency departments (EDs). However, EDs generally are not equipped or staffed to provide definitive dental services. This study examined trends and patterns of hospital ED use for dental-related reasons in Florida, a large, diverse state with serious barriers to accessing dental care. METHODS Data fo...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2017.303746