Emergency Department Visitors and Visits: Who Used the Emergency Room in 2007?

Abstract

Older adults (aged 75 • and over), non-Hispanic black persons, poor persons, and persons with Medicaid coverage were more likely to have had at least one emergency department (ED) visit in a 12-month period than those in other age, race, income, and insurance groups.

Trends in Pediatric Visits to the Emergency Department for Psychiatric Illnesses

“…We decided a priori to include age, sex, race, ethnicity, region, urban status, and year in the model, as they have been previously demonstrated to be associated with differences in both ED and psychiatric care. 3,6,7,11,12,16,[19][20][21][22][23][24] For the length of stay (LOS) analysis as our secondary outcome, we tested for trend the median visit length. Median LOS is used in place of the mean LOS as values were not normally distributed.…”

Emergency Department Visits after Kidney Transplantation

“…Indeed, similar disparities have been described in the general United States population; the percentage of Medicaid versus privately insured persons with at least one ED visit in 2007 was 38% versus 17% among adults 18-44 years of age and 39% versus 16% among adults 45-64 years of age (12). Of course, an alternative interpretation is that Medicaid recipients are more chronically ill and hence, need more ED services than privately insured individuals, even after adjusting for comorbid illnesses.…”

Differences and Similarities in Explanatory Models of Hypertension in the United States of America, Tanzania and Jamaica

“…Hypertensive patients who use the ED for this purpose have lower levels of disease awareness and more frequently develop pressure-related cardiovascular consequences than those with a stable primary care relationship (10). This paradigm is especially common among non-Hispanic blacks who, on the whole, are more likely to utilize ED services in a given year and are more likely to present with severely elevated BP than other racial groups, even after adjusting for age, income and insurance status (11,12).…”