Proposals to cut health care costs often focus on emergency rooms, including not paying for patients who visit them with non-urgent problems like heartburn or an insect bite. But basing reimbursement on discharge diagnoses is a bad idea, a new study found.Pauline W. Chen...
Maternal factors and child's health care use questionnaire: number of clinic visits, use of emergency room, visits to the ER or clinic for injuries, and delays in immunizations of two months or ... JM Watson,KJ Kemper - 《Social Science & Medicine》 被引量: 164发表: 1995年 Expanding Pu...
Urgent care, also known as a walk-in clinic, provides medical care to patients who are in need of a physician, but don’t have a serious issue that requires the emergency room. It also takes care of patients who would otherwise go to the ER for medical care and wait hours to see a ...
emergency medicineis often a hot topic. Despite that importance, an analysis published online April 26 in theAnnals of Emergency Medicinefinds that national expenditures on emergency care are likely significantly higher than
Emergency treatment generally results from a failure of proper management and education in the primary care setting. Educational programs for pediatric patients with asthma and their families could save resources as well as reduce the trauma often associated with visits to the emergency room. 展开 ...
"As an emergency physician, I have seen patients come to theemergency roomhaving postponed their care. They often come in sicker than they would have been had they received care sooner," she said. "That scenario is what I find most alarming in this survey's findings. Some groups that are...
The article suggests that studies challenge the assumption that the emergency rooms (ER) in the U.S. are jammed with uninsured and disadvantaged patients repeatedly seeking preventive and primary care. The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) released several studies that found that frequent...
This cost of care makes up the largest proportion of total health care expenditure,27 but our in ability to capture follow-up data in outpatient or emergency department visits and long-term care limits the scope of our findings. Caution should be used in applying our results to all hospitals...
My daughter was admitted to the emergency room at Lewisdale hospital and had an electrocardiogram tracing and the charge to my insurance was 4,188.66 plus 31.34. My cost is 2,517.52.This amount is outrageous. Was this post helpful to you?yesnoReportprohibitedorspam ...
The Costs of Emergency Room Cost-Cutting Proposals to cut health care costs often focus on emergency rooms, including not paying for patients who visit them with non-urgent problems like heartburn... PW Chen,M.D 被引量: 0发表: 2013年 TRIZ FOR UK GOVERNMENT COST CUTTING TRIZ was used to...