Study finds that patients who saw a within-group family physician after hours were 10% less likely to visit the emergency department within seven days compared to those who saw an out-of-group walk-in clinic physician.
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Annals of Family Medicine
Health Care Utilization After a Visit to a Within-Group Family Physician vs a Walk-In Clinic Physician
PURPOSE Primary care access is a key health system metric, but little research has compared models to provide primary care access when one’s regular physician is not available. We compared health system use after a visit with a patient’s own family physician…
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One firearm injury was treated every 30 minutes in emergency departments in a study of 10 US jurisdictions, finds the largest analysis to date of detailed temporal patterns in firearm injury using emergency department data. 🔫🩺📊
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Annals of Internal Medicine
Patterns of U.S. Firearm Injury Emergency Department Visits by Month, Day, and Time During 2018 to 2023 | Annals of Internal Medicine
Background: Monitoring temporal trends in firearm injury–related emergency department (ED) visits is challenging because traditional surveillance systems lack detailed temporal information. Objective: To describe temporal patterns of ED visits for firearm…
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