Preventive Health Services Offered in a Sampling of US Emergency Departments, 2022-2023.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In the United States, more chronic and preventive healthcare is being delivered in the emergency department (ED) setting. Understanding the availability of preventive health services in the ED setting is crucial. Our goal was to understand the availability of a subset of preventive health services in US EDs and explore how that has changed over time.

Methods

In 2022-2023, using the National Emergency Department Inventory (NEDI)-USA, we surveyed a random 20% (1,064) sampling of all 5,613 US EDs. We asked directors of these EDs about the availability of and preference for 12 preventive health services, social worker availability, self-reported percentage of uninsured ED patients, and measures of ED crowding. We also asked about perceptions of barriers to implement

SUBMITTER: Bennett CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11418861 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature