Introduction: Children are frequently victims of disasters; however important gaps remain in pediatric disaster planning. This includes a lack resources for preparedness planning patients outpatient/urgent-care facilities. The New York City Pediatric Disaster Coalition (NYCPDC) is funded by the NYC Department Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) to improve NYC’s response. After creating Long-Term ...

Following standard practice in the literature, we construct our health care utilization measure by aggregating care provided to Medicare beneficiaries as recorded in the inpatient, outpatient, and carrier claims data. The inpatient file records payments to inpatient hospital providers (such as hospitals), the outpatient file records payments to institutional outpatient providers (such as hospit...

BACKGROUND Although much evidence has accumulated demonstrating its benefit, relatively little is known about outpatient palliative care in patients with cancer. METHODS This paper reviews the literature and perspectives from content experts to describe the current state of outpatient palliative care in the oncology setting and current areas of innovation and promise in the field. RESULTS E...

OBJECTIVE This report describes ambulatory care visits to hospital outpatient departments in the United States. Statistics are presented on selected patient and visit characteristics. METHODS The data presented in this report were collected from the 1996 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS). NHAMCS is part of the ambulatory care component of the National Health Care Surve...

The Medicare supplementary medical insurance (SMI) program helps pay for covered hospital outpatient services for the diagnosis or treatment of an illness or injury. Major hospital outpatient services covered by SMI include services in an emergency room or outpatient clinic, including ambulatory surgical procedures, laboratory tests billed by the hospital, mental health care in a hospital outpa...

There is good evidence demonstrating that outpatient management of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) is feasible and safe. However, few emergency departments in Ireland have implemented care pathways for outpatient management of DVT. The aim of this study was to examine the safety and efficacy of implementing an Emergency Department (ED)- care pathway for outpatient management of patients with DVT. ...

BACKGROUND More focus on patient-centeredness in care for patients with type 2 diabetes requests increasing attention to diabetes quality management processes on patient-centeredness by managers in primary care groups and outpatient clinics. Although patient-centered care is ultimately determined by the quality of interactions between patients and clinicians at the practice level, it should be ...

OBJECTIVES To measure satisfaction with medical visits in various health care settings and to assess the extent to which differences in satisfaction scores between health care settings can be attributed to patients' characteristics. DESIGN This was a cross sectional survey to measure seven dimensions of patient satisfaction. SETTINGS Ambulatory visits to 'gatekeepers' or specialists in a ne...