Primary Care Comprehensiveness and Care Coordination in Robust Specialist Networks Results in Lower Emergency Department Utilization: A Network Analysis of Medicaid Physician Networks

• Main Authors: Zhaowei She (Author), Anne H. Gaglioti (Author), Peter Baltrus (Author), Chaohua Li (Author), Miranda A. Moore (Author), Lilly C. Immergluck (Author), Arthi Rao (Author), Turgay Ayer (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Care coordination is an essential and difficult to measure function of primary care. Objective: Our objective was to assess the impact of network characteristics in primary/specialty physician networks on emergency department (ED) visits for patients with chronic ambulatory care sensitiv...