Sentences with phrase «of emergency room visits study»

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Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

The study indicated that the proteins are readily measurable with standard assays, but the team hopes to develop a microfluidic chip that can derive reliable readings within just two hours (well within the duration of many emergency room visits).

«The study reports asthma related emergency room visits are estimated to be 55 percent lower in people with asthma who use dose counting inhalers than in those who use inhalers without dose counters,» said allergist Allen Meadows, MD, ACAAI fellow and chair of the Public Education Committee.

Half of all adults older than 65 years of age made an emergency room (ER) visit in the last month of life, according to a study in the June issue of Health Affairs.

The U-M study found that more than half of the men who reported violence toward a partner had at least one routine health visit over the last year and nearly one third noted at least one emergency room visit over the last year.

Infants in the study had 59 percent fewer emergency room visits and overnight hospital stays during the first six months of life than a control group of infants.

In the first multi-state study of children's and non-children's hospitals, assessing pediatric readmission and revisit rates — being admitted into the hospital again or visiting the emergency room within 30 days of discharge — for common pediatric conditions, UCSF researchers found that diagnosis - specific readmission and revisit rates are limited in their usefulness as a quality indicator for pediatric hospital care.

The study, which controlled for levels of pollutants and allergens in the air (which are affected by weather), found that a 10 - degree increase in temperature and a 10 % change in humidity were associated with a slight uptick in asthma - related emergency room visits.

One study has noted that 3 percent of emergency room visits for genitourinary trauma are a result of grooming.

«While the results of our retrospective study indicate that there is an increased likelihood of emergency room visits on the days surrounding a full moon, it is difficult to interpret the clinical significance of these findings,» Wells writes.

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

According to Sam Miller, the executive vice president of the Florida Insurance Council, «studies show that about 40 percent of the patients visiting emergency rooms currently have no insurance other than PIP.»

Prescription drug overdoses in the US place a substantial burden on hospitals and the economy, according to a new study of emergency room visits reported on by the LA Times.

One study of Child FIRST found positive effects on involvement with child protective services at three years.24 There are studies of Early Head Start — Home Visiting (EHS — HV), HFA, Healthy Steps, and NFP that measure effects on emergency room or doctor visits for injuries or ingestions but only NFP showed positive effects.13, 18,25,26