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- Title
Children's health insurance status and emergency department utilization in the United States.
- Authors
Luo, Xuemei; Liu, Gordon; Frush, Karen; Hey, Lloyd A
- Abstract
Emergency department (ED) overcrowding has become a national problem. Children account for nearly 25% of overall ED visits. It has been reported that uninsured and publicly insured children are likely to visit the ED for urgent and nonurgent problems, yet it remains unclear to what extent health insurance status would influence children's overall ED utilization or ED utilization for nonurgent problems at the national level after controlling for other confounding factors. The objective of this study was to examine the effect of health insurance status on children's overall ED utilization and children's ED utilization for nonurgent problems among the general pediatric population in the United States.
- Publication
Pediatrics, 2003, Vol 112, Issue 2, p314
- ISSN
1098-4275
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1542/peds.112.2.314