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Demand for emergency health service: factors associated with inappropriate use

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Title
Demand for emergency health service: factors associated with inappropriate use
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, August 2007
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-7-131
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Authors

Maria LV Carret, Anaclaudia G Fassa, Ichiro Kawachi

Abstract

The inappropriate use of emergency room (ER) service by patients with non-urgent health problems is a worldwide problem. Inappropriate ER use makes it difficult to guarantee access for real emergency cases, decreases readiness for care, produces negative spillover effects on the quality of emergency services, and raises overall costs.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 2 <1%
United States 2 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Uruguay 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Hong Kong 1 <1%
Unknown 219 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 40 18%
Student > Doctoral Student 27 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 11%
Researcher 25 11%
Student > Bachelor 17 7%
Other 38 17%
Unknown 54 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 72 32%
Nursing and Health Professions 23 10%
Social Sciences 14 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 12 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 9 4%
Other 34 15%
Unknown 63 28%