Sentences with phrase «in nonemergencies»

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But in 1982, Congress let the military organization off the hook when it came to dealing with citizens» boneheaded behavior, handing nonemergency calls over to private companies.

In 2010, Nebraska became the first to ban nonemergency abortions after 20 weeks, based on research indicating that's when fetuses start to feel pain.

The authors point out that the eight states that have implemented copayments for nonemergency ED visits saw no reduction in ED visits by Medicaid patients relative to states that did not implement such copayments.

If you find a pet in this life - threatening situation, try locating the owner and call 911, rather than the nonemergency line.

Legal decision making refers to the rights of a parent to make all nonemergency legal decisions for a child, such as where the child will attend school, the religion that the child will be raised, and personal activities that the child will engage in.

In addition, use of behavioral control by parents predicted lower rates of both nonemergency care and ER visits, as well as fewer diagnosed respiratory illnesses.

In other words, more supportive parents took their children to the doctor for nonemergency care more often than less supportive parents.

However, in contrast to what we expected, these children also had lower rates of nonemergency visits.

The hierarchical regressions were significant for nonemergency visits [final adj. R2 =.15, F (12, 237) = 4.66, p <.01], ER visits [adj. R2 =.15, F (12, 237) = 4.72, p <.01], ear infections [adj. R2 =.05, F (12, 237) = 2.07, p <.01], and acute respiratory illnesses [adj. R2 =.08, F (12, 237) = 2.84, p <.01], such that these full regression models accounted for a significant proportion of the variance in children's health care usage.

Although this finding was not consistent with our predictions, it may suggest that at least during early childhood, the greater use of behavioral control may have a protective effect on health, resulting in lower rates of ambulatory care (i.e., nonemergency care and ER visits).