Unscheduled Care Access in the United States-A Tale of Two Emergency Departments

Rural communities face challenges in accessing healthcare services due to physician shortages and limited unscheduled care capabilities in office settings. As a result, rural hospital-based Emergency Departments (ED) may disproportionately provide acute, unscheduled care needs. We sought to examine differences in ED utilization and the relative role of the ED in providing access to unscheduled care between rural and urban communities.

Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - October 27, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Arjun K. Venkatesh, Margaret B. Greenwood-Ericksen, Hao Mei, Craig Rothenberg, Zhenqiu Lin, Harlan M. Krumholz Source Type: research