Identification of Emergency Care-Sensitive Conditions and Characteristics of Emergency Department Utilization.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Monitoring emergency care quality requires understanding which conditions benefit most from timely, quality emergency care.

Objectives

To identify a set of emergency care-sensitive conditions (ECSCs) that are treated in most emergency departments (EDs), are associated with a spectrum of adult age groups, and represent common reasons for seeking emergency care and to provide benchmark national estimates of ECSC acute care utilization.

Design, setting, and participants

A modified Delphi method was used to identify ECSCs. In a cross-sectional analysis, ECSC-associated visits by adults (aged ≥18 years) were identified based on International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification diagnosis codes and analyzed with nationally

SUBMITTER: Vashi AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6686774 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature