Here are nine recent studies on emergency department visits, beginning with the most recent.
1. Patients' actual emergency department waiting times may differ
significantly from their predicted waiting times, according to a study
in Emergency Medicine Journal.
2. While the number of office visits decreased 4.7 percent in 2011, the
number of emergency department admissions increased by 7.4 percent,
according to a report by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics.
3. Adults who recently gained or lost insurance are associated with
higher emergency department use than adults who have not had recent
changes in coverage, according to a study in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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