Does Providing Care for Uninsured Patients Decrease Emergency Room Visits and Hospitalizations?
Background: Access to primary care could reduce use of more costly health care by uninsured individuals through prevention and early treatment. We analyzed data from a program providing free primary care to test this hypothesis. Methods: We compared emergency room (ER) visits and hospitalizations am...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2013-04-01
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| Series: | Journal of Primary Care & Community Health |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2150131913478981 |