Role of Health Insurance Status in Interfacility Transfers of Patients With ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction.

ABSTRACT: Lack of health insurance is associated with interfacility transfer from emergency departments for several nonemergent conditions, but its association with transfers for ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), which requires timely definitive care for optimal outcomes, is unknown. Our objective was to determine whether insurance status is a predictor of interfacility transfer for emergency department visits with STEMI. We analyzed data from the 2006 to 2011 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample examining all emergency department visits for patients age 18 years and older with a diagnosis of STEMI and a disposition of interfacility transfer or hospitalization at the same institution. For emergency department visits with STEMI, our multivariate logistic regression model included emergenc

SUBMITTER: Ward MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4949088 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature