Does Spatial Access to Primary Care Affect Emergency Department Utilization for Nonemergent Conditions?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the contributions of individual- and neighborhood-level spatial access to care to the utilization of emergency departments (EDs) for preventable conditions through implementation of novel local spatial access measures.

Data sources/study setting

Emergency department admissions data are from four HealthLNK member hospitals in Chicago from 2007 to 2011. Primary care physician office and clinic locations were obtained from the American Medical Association and the City of Chicago.

Study design

Multilevel logit regression was used to model the relationship between individual- and neighborhood-level attributes and preventable ED use.

Data collection/extraction methods

Emergency department admissions data were classified based on the primary diagn

SUBMITTER: Fishman J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5785320 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature