Does Providing Care for Uninsured Patients Decrease Emergency Room Visits and Hospitalizations?
Background: Access to primary care could reduce use of more costly health care by uninsured individuals through prevention and early treatment. We analyzed data from a program providing free primary care to test this hypothesis. Methods: We compared emergency room (ER) visits and hospitalizations am...
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Main Authors: | Ted MacKinney (Author), Alexis M. Visotcky (Author), Sergey Tarima (Author), Jeff Whittle (Author) |
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2013-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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