The emergency department as usual source of medical care: Estimates from the 1998 National Health Interview Survey
The emergency department as usual source of medical care: Estimates from the 1998 National Health Interview Survey
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1553-2712.2002.tb01568.x
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发表时间：
2002-11-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Kennedy, JJ
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作者：
Walls, CA;Rhodes, KV;Kennedy, JJ
在急诊医学领域，关于患者使用急诊科 (ED) 作为其通常的医疗护理来源的争论一直存在，这可以说是一种成本高昂且效率低下的使用模式。然而，关于这种使用的流行程度的准确的国家数据很少。本分析使用 1998 年全国健康访谈调查来估计将急诊室作为其常用护理来源的美国人的数量，并将他们的特征与那些除急诊室以外的常用护理来源的人进行比较。贫困、缺乏保险、年龄较小、男性以及少数族裔或民族预示着急诊室将成为通常的护理来源。
In emergency medicine, there is an ongoing debate regarding patients who use the emergency department (ED) as their usual source of medical care-an arguably costly and inefficient pattern of utilization. However, there are few accurate national data on the prevalence of such usage. This analysis uses the 1998 National Health Interview Survey to estimate the number of Americans who name the ED as their usual source of care, and compares their characteristics with those who have a usual source of care other than the ED. Poverty, lack of insurance, younger age, male gender, and minority race or ethnicity predicted identifying the ED as the usual source of care.