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- DOI 10.1197/aemj.9.11.1140
- OpenAlex ID W4253398944
- Type Article
- Language EN
- Published 01 Nov 2002
- Volume 9 (11)
- Pages 1140–1145
- Source Academic Emergency Medicine
- Publisher Wiley
- FWCI 2.58
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- Added 10 Oct 2025
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The Emergency Department as Usual Source of Medical Care: Estimates from the 1998 National Health Interview Survey
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In emergency medicine, there is an ongoing debate regarding patients who use the emergency department (ED) as their usual source of medical care—an arguably costly and inefficient pattern of utilization. However, there are few accurate national data on the prevalence of such usage. This analysis uses the 1998 National Health Interview Survey to estimate the number of Americans who name the ED as t…
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3 authors| # | Author | Institutions | ORCID |
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| 1 | Craig A. Walls Corresponding | University of Illinois Chicago (US) | — |
| 2 | Karin Verlaine Rhodes | University of Chicago (US) | |
| 3 | Jae J. Kennedy | University of Illinois Chicago (US) |
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