The American journal of emergency medicine
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Unscheduled Care Access in the United States-A Tale of Two Emergency Departments.
Rural communities face challenges in accessing healthcare services due to physician shortages and limited unscheduled care capabilities in office settings. As a result, rural hospital-based Emergency Departments (ED) may disproportionately provide acute, unscheduled care needs. We sought to examine differences in ED utilization and the relative role of the ED in providing access to unscheduled care between rural and urban communities. ⋯ The use and role of EDs by Medicare beneficiaries appears to be substantially different between urban and rural areas. This suggests that the ED may play a distinct role within the healthcare delivery system of rural communities that face disproportionate barriers to care access.
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Multicenter Study
Discharge in Pandemic: Suspected Covid-19 patients returning to the Emergency Department within 72 hours for admission.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) has led to unprecedented healthcare demand. This study seeks to characterize Emergency Department (ED) discharges suspected of Covid-19 that are admitted within 72 h. ⋯ Several factors emerge as associated with 72-h ED return admission in subjects suspected of Covid-19. These should be considered when assessing discharge risk in clinical practice.