Nurse - Family Partnership reduced child abuse and neglect by 48 % and reduced
emergency room visits for accidents and poisonings by 56 % (Olds, et al., 1997).
He never went to see a doctor with the exception of a couple of
emergency room visits for other problems (nothing heart related) Will the insurance company (Gerber) try to deny this claim?
These accidents account for nearly 60 percent of
all emergency room visits for bicycle - related injuries.
Dog bites are one of the most prominent causes
emergency room visits for children.
Ground - level ozone (a key component of smog) is associated with many health problems, such as diminished lung function, increased hospital admissions and
emergency room visits for asthma, and increases in premature deaths.12, 13,14,146
Very small children should be taught appropriate handling and petting to avoid accidental
emergency room visits for a bitten finger.
One study has noted that 3 percent of
emergency room visits for genitourinary trauma are a result of grooming.
Migraine headaches are one of the most common causes of
emergency room visits for women between the ages of 18 and 45.
The program aims to help people maintain their health, and avoid readmissions to the hospital and
emergency room visits for routine medical care.
Ground - level ozone (a key component of smog) is associated with many health problems, such as diminished lung function, increased hospital admissions and
emergency room visits for asthma, and increases in premature deaths.12, 13,14,146
Kaplan's team also found that in Montreal and Edmonton,
emergency room visits for abdominal pain without a known cause were slightly higher among 15 - to 24 - year olds on days when levels of certain air pollutants were elevated.
For each microgram / cubic meter increase in coarse particulate matter, asthma diagnosis increased by 1.3 percent,
emergency room visits for asthma by 3.3 percent and hospitalizations for asthma by 4.5 percent.
After adjusting their findings to account for differences in race and ethnicity, sex, age, poverty level, education and urban density of the children's neighborhoods, Keet and her team found that for each microgram / cubic meter increase in coarse particulate matter, asthma diagnosis increased by 0.6 percent,
emergency room visits for asthma by 1.7 percent and hospitalizations for asthma by 2.3 percent.
It found that adults in Williamsburg, Bushwick, Bed - Stuy and East New York had higher rates of
emergency room visits for asthma than other neighborhoods.
The study, which was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found lower rates of confirmed abuse cases, child out — of — home placements, and hospitalizations and
emergency room visits for child injuries in counties where parenting support was implemented.
Like Isaac, more kids are ending up in hospitals due to soaring temperatures, with U.S.
emergency room visits for heat illnesses up by 133 percent between 1997 and 2006.
Interestingly, riding a bike and playground were number one and number three on the list of activities resulting in
emergency room visits for traumatic brain injury overall (8.1 % and 7.9 % respectively), second and third among males under age 19 (16.5 %, 7.8 %), second and first among girls (11.8 %, 14.2 %), and number one and two for boys and girls aged 9 or younger.
My ten - month - old German Shepherd mix had almost $ 1K in vet bills a few weeks ago followed by
an emergency room visit for a wound on her nose.
We recently had
an emergency room visit for our Lab five days before having our first baby!
Add up the deductible and
an emergency room visit for even one person with smoke inhalation, and you're already approaching $ 100,000.
And when a recent adventure gone awry resulted in an unexpected and expensive
emergency room visit for my husband, I was reminded just how quickly life can change.
Not exact matches
Too much alcohol and too little hydration can be a recipe
for an
emergency room visit.
According to a 2009 survey (using 2005 - 06 data) by the Canadian Institute
for Health Information, the estimated cost of an
emergency room visit ranged between sub - $ 100 in the Maritimes to a high of $ 148 in Ontario.
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.
I had come in seeking an explanation
for why I was suddenly seeing double out of my right eye, and she didn't even do a check on me before she was telling me that the best thing I should do was to
visit the
emergency room.
The only thing that has changed is that millions of folks now do have health care coverage, so they don't need to go to the
emergency room for a nice, costly
visit.
I was especially happy
for my brand spanking new Shun Edo Santoku knife, so excited that I cut my finger as soon as I used it and was very close to
visiting an
emergency room on Christmas to possibly get stitches.
The fact that more than 10,000 children
visit emergency rooms each year in the US
for food - related choking incidents is further proof that you shouldn't stake your baby's life on his gag reflex.
According to the CPSC, thousands of kids
visit the
emergency room to be treated
for injuries related to falls from shopping carts.
An April 2007 Canadian study found that children receiving
emergency room treatment
for a head injury (HI) are nearly twice as likely to experience another HI requiring medical attention in the next six months compared to children who initially
visited the ER
for a non-head related injury.
Furthermore,
for those families in the study who practiced «stretching diapers» (i.e. using a soiled diaper multiple times), more doctors
visits and
emergency room visits per year were reported
for cases of diaper dermatitis and UTI's in young children.
Concussions accounted
for 163,000
emergency room visits, or a concussion - related ER
visit every three minutes.
You can
visit your local
Emergency Room or the Hospital
for Sick Children
Emergency Department.
Stephanie Condon of CBS News wrote in her article (dated May 29, 2014) that young people account
for around 250,000
emergency room visits annually due to sport or recreation - related head injuries.
«
For the New Yorkers fighting this chronic disease, a flare - up can mean missing work or school and too many late night
emergency room visits,» said Comptroller DiNapoli.
And when asthmatics and diabetics don't have access to a doctor, they use the
emergency room as an entry point, which typically means they don't receive proper follow - up care, leading to repeat
visits for a treatable and preventable ailment.
State Sen. Jeff Klein intends to introduce new legislation that would strengthen the penalties
for selling synthetic marijuana in the wake of sales of the drug leading to almost 700
emergency room visits at Bronx hospitals in recent months, according to his office.
In 2011, the use of bath salts was responsible
for over 20,000
emergency room visits in the US and poisonings and deaths related to use have been occurring at large dance festivals.
In Hawaii, centipede bites account
for about 400
emergency room visits a year, according to data from 2004 to 2008.
Mistaking his heart anxieties
for heart attacks, Siebert
visits the
emergency room repeatedly.
It is the number one illness leading to school absences in children, and accounts
for more than 1.8 million
emergency room visits annually.
Every 10 minutes in the greater Houston area, SAPPHIRE receives reports on
emergency room cases, descriptions of patients» self - reported symptoms, updated electronic health rec - ords, and clinicians» notes from eight hospitals that account
for more than 30 percent of the region's
emergency room visits.
Chest pain is the most common reason people go to the
emergency room in developed countries and accounts
for more than 5 million ER
visits each year in the United States.
Led by Sudha Ram, a UA professor of management information systems and computer science, and Dr. Yolande Pengetnze, a physician scientist at the Parkland Center
for Clinical Innovation in Dallas, the researchers looked specifically at the chronic condition of asthma and how asthma - related tweets, analyzed alongside other data, can help predict asthma - related
emergency room visits.
The researchers additionally looked at asthma - related Google searches in the area but found that they were not a good predictor
for asthma
emergency room visits.
To scout
for potential attacks and disease outbreaks, the Department of Health and Human Services now monitors patterns of
emergency room visits, over-the-counter drugs and school absenteeism.
She and her team hope that their findings will help them create similar predictive models
for emergency room visits related to other chronic conditions, such as diabetes.
While opponents of the measure have questioned links between carbon dioxide levels and
emergency -
room visits, evidence is piling on and health advocates are calling
for action (ClimateWire, June 3).
Ram and her collaborators — including Wenli Zhang, a UA doctoral student in management information systems, and researchers from the Parkland Center
for Clinical Innovation — created a model that was able to successfully predict approximately how many asthma sufferers would
visit the
emergency room at a large hospital in Dallas on a given day, based on an analysis of data gleaned from electronic medical records, air quality sensors and Twitter.
Between 2000 and 2010,
emergency room visits and hospitalizations
for head injuries increased from 521 to 824 per 100,000 people annually.