Publications by authors named "Rajiv Chetram"
Article Synopsis
- Some low-severity emergency department visits may be preventable with better access to primary care.
- A significant majority (74.4%) of emergency department patients had a family physician, but how often they saw them varied greatly.
- Various sociodemographic factors, such as gender, marital status, race, employment history, and flu shot receipt, were linked to having a family physician, indicating the need for further exploration of these relationships.
Objective: ED visits have been rising year on year worldwide. It has been suggested that some of these visits could be avoided if low-acuity patients had better primary care access. This study explored patients' efforts to avoid ED presentation and alternative care sought prior to presentation.
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