Emergency department visits for nonurgent conditions: systematic literature review.

L Uscher-Pines, J Pines, A Kellermann… - The American journal …, 2013 - europepmc.org
Background A large proportion of all emergency department (ED) visits in the United States
are for nonurgent conditions. Use of the ED for nonurgent conditions may lead to excessive …

[HTML][HTML] Deciding to visit the emergency department for non-urgent conditions: a systematic review of the literature

L Uscher-Pines, J Pines, A Kellermann… - The American journal …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background A large proportion of all emergency department (ED) visits in the US are for non-
urgent conditions. Use of the ED for non-urgent conditions may lead to excessive healthcare …

Matching and regression to the mean in difference‐in‐differences analysis

JR Daw, LA Hatfield - Health services research, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To demonstrate regression to the mean bias introduced by matching on preperiod
variables in difference‐in‐differences studies. Data Sources Simulated data. Study Design …

Projecting US primary care physician workforce needs: 2010-2025

SM Petterson, WR Liaw, RL Phillips… - The Annals of Family …, 2012 - Annals Family Med
PURPOSE We sought to project the number of primary care physicians required to meet US
health care utilization needs through 2025 after passage of the Affordable Care Act …

Emergency care services: trends, drivers and interventions to manage the demand

C Berchet - 2015 - oecd-ilibrary.org
Emergency departments are the front line of health care systems and play a critical role in
ensuring an efficient and high-quality response for patients in stress or crisis situations. A …

Does Medicare save lives?

D Card, C Dobkin, N Maestas - The quarterly journal of …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Health insurance characteristics shift at age 65 as most people become eligible for
Medicare. We measure the impacts of these changes on patients who are admitted to …

High-deductible health plans reduce health care cost and utilization, including use of needed preventive services

R Agarwal, O Mazurenko, N Menachemi - Health Affairs, 2017 - healthaffairs.org
Enrollment in high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) has greatly increased in recent years.
Policy makers and other stakeholders need the best available evidence about how these …

Contribution of preventable acute care spending to total spending for high-cost Medicare patients

KE Joynt, AA Gawande, EJ Orav, AK Jha - Jama, 2013 - jamanetwork.com
Importance A small proportion of patients account for the majority of US health care
spending, and understanding patterns of spending among this cohort is critical to reducing …

Comparison of presenting complaint vs discharge diagnosis for identifying “nonemergency” emergency department visits

MC Raven, RA Lowe, J Maselli, RY Hsia - Jama, 2013 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Reduction in emergency department (ED) use is frequently viewed as a potential
source for cost savings. One consideration has been to deny payment if the patient's …

[图书][B] Setting limits fairly: learning to share resources for health

N Daniels, JE Sabin - 2008 - books.google.com
The central idea behind this book is that we lack consensus on principles for allocating
medical resources--and in the absence of such a consensus we must develop and rely on a …