Sentences with phrase «in emergency room visits»

Researchers found that an increase of 100 foreclosures coincided with a 7.2 percent increase in emergency room visits and hospitalizations for hypertension, and an 8.1 percent rise for diabetes among people aged 20 to 49.

Researchers had found that a higher number of foreclosures in Arizona, California, Florida, and New Jersey were found to coincide with a rise of stress - related health problems in those states, including an increase in the number of hospital visits for preventable conditions and increase in emergency room visits and hospitalizations for hypertension.

Targeted interventions do not generally reach enough families to see population - level effects (eg, reduction in emergency room visits due to child abuse or population level reduction in child mental health problems).22, 31 — 33

Unum Insurance noted a nearly 20 % increase in accidents resulting in emergency room visits during the summer of 2012.

According to a recent University of Washington study, 56 percent of mild traumatic brain injuries went undiagnosed in emergency room visits.

That increased access, though, has not led to a clear decrease in emergency room visits, hospital stays, inpatient costs, or mortality, according to the research by Briesacher and her team, which included colleagues from Harvard Medical School.

The gap would instead fall on hospitals, nursing homes and rural health care providers, he said, many of which are unequipped to handle a potential increase in emergency room visits and are already on the bubble — including facilities like Southampton Hospital, which he said was insolvent.

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.

When my husband was a doctor, he'd notice an uptick in Emergency Room visits around Christmastime: the stress, dense foods, and disrupted routines of the season were literally making people sick.

These data include all attempts, not just those that resulted in an emergency room visit or hospitalization.

It might be the last thing you want to do, but not taking medication, in combination with the stress of a new life and a new environment, could result in an emergency room visit or worse.

The last thing that you want is for your pet to become sick and for your busy schedule to fit in an emergency room visit.

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INFLUENZA OUTBREAK DRIVES UPTICK IN US TELEMEDICINE VISITS: Healthcare systems are showing an increasing reliance on telemedicine providers to alleviate emergency rooms during illness outbreaks, according to virtual care delivery service Teladoc.

These services aim to provide affordable care in place of more expensive healthcare services like emergency room visits.

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 admissioIn 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 admissioin a hospital admission.

Back in 2012, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan stated that it costs about $ 40,000 a year to fund a homeless person, with the costs of shelters, emergency room visits, and jails being factored.

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.

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.

Meanwhile, researchers in Regina found that Housing First created cost savings of nearly $ 75,000 per person annually through lower costs of policing, days in hospital, emergency room visits, and detox 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.

Moreover, many were so pleased with the hospice care they were receiving that they did not pursue painful last - ditch efforts, visiting «the emergency room half as often» as the control group in traditional hospice.

In some of these situations, especially if you are filling a pad or a tampon with bright red, painful bleeding, in less than an hour, you may also need to visit the nearest emergency rooIn some of these situations, especially if you are filling a pad or a tampon with bright red, painful bleeding, in less than an hour, you may also need to visit the nearest emergency rooin less than an hour, you may also need to visit the nearest emergency room.

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.

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.

If you stood in the lobby of your local emergency room you would no doubt see that every day kids visit this unpleasant place because of injuries they sustain in the home.

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.

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.

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.

Exertional heat stroke also results in thousands of emergency room visits and hospitalizations throughout the nation each year.

Meals should be cooked in advance and frozen, and bags packed in case of an emergency room visit.

Trips and slips send thousands of elders to the emergency room every day in America, and guarding against falls is one of the best ways to avoid an unwelcome visit to the hospital.

In most cases, though, a fever by itself doesn't warrant an emergency room visit.

In the U.S. it is estimated that anaphylaxis to food results in 30,000 emergency room visits, 2,000 hospitalizations, and 150 deaths every yeaIn the U.S. it is estimated that anaphylaxis to food results in 30,000 emergency room visits, 2,000 hospitalizations, and 150 deaths every yeain 30,000 emergency room visits, 2,000 hospitalizations, and 150 deaths every year.

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.

These youngsters also tend to have higher rates of accidental injuries — injuries from falls off furniture after excessive climbing, falling or jumping out of windows or off decks, unbuckling restraints and standing up in the car or stroller, even accidentally drinking poison — resulting in more emergency room visits.

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.

In an effort to combat «spice» sales, which have led to nearly 700 emergency room visits at three Bronx hospitals in recent months, Senator Klein also introduced new legislation to strengthen criminal and civil penalties to keep ahead of the synthetic drug tradIn an effort to combat «spice» sales, which have led to nearly 700 emergency room visits at three Bronx hospitals in recent months, Senator Klein also introduced new legislation to strengthen criminal and civil penalties to keep ahead of the synthetic drug tradin recent months, Senator Klein also introduced new legislation to strengthen criminal and civil penalties to keep ahead of the synthetic drug trade.

The number of these costly emergency room visits could decrease dramatically as dental patients receive primary care in a proper dental clinic, rather than the «last resort» setting of an emergency room.

Schumer says that federal statistics show 2,300 emergency room visits in a two - month period were related to synthetic marijuana use and that poison control center calls about the drug are surging around the nation.

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.

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.

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.

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 festivalIn 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 festivalin 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.

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.

It is the number one illness leading to school absences in children, and accounts for more than 1.8 million emergency room visits annually.

The study was inspired by a rise in young people visiting emergency rooms with heart trouble after consuming energy drinks, the researchers told STAT.

«Young adults with full - year private insurance coverage certainly had the «optimal utilization,» with the highest office - based visit and the lowest emergency room visit rates when compared to those with public insurance, those with gaps in coverage or the uninsured.»