Health Is Not Just Health Care (Especially for Frequent ED Users) [journals.lww.com]
By Gina Shaw, Emergency Medicine News, September 1, 2019 Frequent emergency department users are sometimes dismissed as frequent fliers, stigmatized as patients with low-acuity medical complaints or manageable chronic conditions who are taking up limited ED bed space and contributing to long waits. New research, however, found that these patients are at serious risk. Frequent visits to the ED are predictive of mortality among nonelderly patients in the short (seven days) and long terms (two...