The authors review the evolution of the emergency medicine literature regarding emergency
department (ED) use and access to care over the past 20 years. They discuss the impact of …

Background Various models exist to organize out-of-hours primary care (OOH-PC). We
aimed to provide an up-to-date overview of prevailing organizational models in the …

Importance Determining the epidemiology of eye-related emergency department (ED) visits
on a national level can assist policymakers in appropriate allocation of resources. Objective …

Americans seek a large amount of nonemergency care in emergency departments, where
they often encounter long waits to be seen. Urgent care centers and retail clinics have …

The research described in this article was performed to develop a more complete picture of
how hospital emergency departments (EDs) contribute to the US health care system, which …

Do urban hospital closures affect health care access or health outcomes? We study closures
in Los Angeles County between 1997 and 2003, through their effect on distance to the …

Background Many visits to emergency departments are for minor medical problems, and
these visits are criticized as being expensive and economically inefficient. This study …

Objective The objective of this study was to explore how insurance coverage, access to care,
and other individual characteristics are related to the large differences in emergency …

Background Use of the emergency department for nonemergency care is frequent and
costly. We studied the effect of a copayment on emergency department use in a group …

The use of the hospital emergency department (ED) for nonurgent health problems has
been a subject of considerable controversy, in part because there is no widely accepted …