Sentences with phrase «americans visit the emergency room»

In 2014, the most recent data available from the CDC, Americans visited the emergency room 141 million times, with fewer than 8 % of these trips resulting in a hospital admission.

-- According to the National Floor Safety Institute, over 8 million Americans visit the emergency room due to falling each year.

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Just 38 percent of Americans said they could cover an unexpected emergency room visit or even a $ 500 car repair with cash on hand in a checking or savings account, according to Bankrate, which commissioned the study.

Jain elaborated on those successes in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year, noting the efficiencies lead to better outcomes for patients, who can more reliably receive routine medical care and stay out of emergency rooms; doctors, who can more easily manage patients» chronic conditions; and cost - savings for the broader medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER visits.

Over 270,000 Americans are expected to visit hospital emergency rooms after suffering winter sports - related injuries this year.

In fact, according to the American Association of Pediatrics, there were more than 8,000 visits to emergency rooms due to injuries related to using a walker.

Statistics from the American Academy of Pediatrics show children injured by shopping carts make 24,000 visits to emergency rooms each year.

A new report published in JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association earlier this month found that head injuries led an estimated 2.5 million people to visit a U.S. emergency room in 2010, and about one third of the cases were children.

Only 38 percent of Americans have enough money saved up to cover an unexpected expense such as a $ 1,000 emergency room visit or a $ 500 car repair, Bankrate found.

According to the American Family Physician, dog bite wounds are also responsible for one percent of all injury - related visits to the emergency room.