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- 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.
Article Abstract
Some low-acuity emergency department (ED) presentations are potentially avoidable with improved primary care access. The majority of ED patients (74.4%) in this study had a family physician, but the frequency of visits varied substantially. The variable frequency of patients' visits to these providers calls into question the validity of linkage assumptions. Several sociodemographic factors were associated with having a family physician, including female sex, being married/common law, race (Caucasian), being employed over the previous 12 months and having received a flu shot in the past year. These factors need to be explored further.
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