Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Phone Based Care Coordination Pilot on Hospital Utilisation and Costs for Patients With Chest Pain

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“…There is no standardized definition of a "repeated ED visitor" in the literature. There is quite a wide range in the number of annual ED visits used for this definition [1,12,[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31], of which the definition of ≥ 4 visits/year is the most common one [21,[31][32][33]. In our study, we defined a patient with four or more visits to the ED due to chest pain to be a "repeated" visitor.…”

“…However, none of the reviewed literature investigated the rate of AMI in the subgroup of repeated ED visitors. Many studies have focused on the number of ED visits due to chest pain as an outcome [25,34,[41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50] in the general ED population and have not focused on the subgroup of repeated patients. Furthermore, almost all of the reviewed studies had important exclusion criteria, e.g.…”

Chest Pain in Repeated Emergency Department Visitors

“…There is no standardized definition of a "repeated ED visitor" in the literature. There is quite a wide range in the number of annual ED visits used for this definition [1,12,[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31], of which the definition of ≥ 4 visits/year is the most common one [21,[31][32][33]. In our study, we defined a patient with four or more visits to the ED due to chest pain to be a "repeated" visitor.…”

“…However, none of the reviewed literature investigated the rate of AMI in the subgroup of repeated ED visitors. Many studies have focused on the number of ED visits due to chest pain as an outcome [25,34,[41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50] in the general ED population and have not focused on the subgroup of repeated patients. Furthermore, almost all of the reviewed studies had important exclusion criteria, e.g.…”