BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Although poor and minority adults experience greater levels of dental disease, they frequently face cost and other system-level barriers to obtaining dental care. These individuals may be forced to use physicians or hospital emergency rooms for the treatment of dental problems. This study was conducted to gain a better understanding of the role that non-dentist health ...

Retail clinics are privately owned clinics typically staffed solely by nurse practitioners and found inside retail stores such as Target, Wal‐mart, and CVS Pharmacy. Since the first retail clinic was established in 2000, over 1,000 sites have opened in thirty‐seven states across the country [4]. Some reports estimate that by 2012, over 6,000 retail clinics will operate in the US [3]. Despite th...

1 Children’s Hospital Informatics Program at Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 Division of Emergency Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 3 Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, Unite...

BACKGROUND Most Americans report having a usual source of medical care, but many also report significant barriers to timely access to such care. This can lead patients to use the emergency department (ED) as a ready alternative to their usual source of medical care, even when such care could be provided more cost-effectively in a primary care setting. The purpose of this study was to examine th...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Our objective was to examine the intention of academic primary care physicians to educate women about emergency contraception (EC) and whether differences in their intention varies with patient situation, knowledge and attitudes about EC, gender, or specialty. METHODS As part of a larger cross-sectional survey about intention to prescribe EC with 96 faculty physician...

OBJECTIVES To systematically evaluate the accuracy of text descriptions and labeling of radiologic images published in the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine (CJEM). Error detection by radiologists and emergency physicians and the clinical significance and educational value of these errors were assessed. Errors were also correlated with radiologist involvement in publication and imaging mod...