Sentences with phrase «of visits to the emergency room»

According to Dr. Oz, says the Herald Tribune, the number of visits to the emergency room have doubled in the last four years, and hit more than 20,000 in the year 2011.

Considering that the cost of a visit to the emergency room or a brief hospitalization can easily exceed $ 20,000, this minimum level of coverage is often totally inadequate when it comes to making you financially whole again after the crash.

Getting bitten by a dog is the fifth most frequent cause of visits to emergency rooms caused by activities common among children.

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

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.

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.

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 room.

According to the CPSC, thousands of kids visit the emergency room to be treated for injuries related to falls from shopping carts.

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.

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.

This suggests that the state's sports - related concussion law has helped to improve the evaluation and detection of such injuries among high school students, by increasing obligatory emergency room visits.

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.

It may save you an Emergency Room Visit and may save them the hassle of trying to find misplaced keys.

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.

The grants are largely designed to slash avoidable hospital admissions and emergency room visits 25 percent by the year 2020, and also ensure the financial sustainability of safety net healthcare providers, explained New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker.

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 trade.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

After multiple emergency room visits and months of uncertainty, Adelynne was admitted to Seattle Children's where she met Suskind and was given a diagnosis: Crohn's.

Out - of - pocket medical expenses, inpatient and outpatient care, emergency room visits and prescription drugs all contribute to the added health care expenditures, with inpatient prescriptions contributing the most, An said.

«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.

By analyzing tweets and air quality information together, Ram and her collaborators were able to use machine learning algorithms to predict with 75 percent accuracy whether the emergency room could expect a low, medium or high number of asthma - related visits on a given day.

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.

Tens of thousands of emergency room visits and several deaths have been attributed to the substances.

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.

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.

To address the possibility that some exacerbations might have been missed because participants either moved out of state or died without coming to a hospital, the team focused on a group of 524 patients for whom some sort of emergency room visit or hospitalization was recorded in the databases during the third year after surgerTo address the possibility that some exacerbations might have been missed because participants either moved out of state or died without coming to a hospital, the team focused on a group of 524 patients for whom some sort of emergency room visit or hospitalization was recorded in the databases during the third year after surgerto a hospital, the team focused on a group of 524 patients for whom some sort of emergency room visit or hospitalization was recorded in the databases during the third year after surgery.

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.

After she returned home, a visit to the emergency room revealed the extent of her injury.

According to the National Institutes of Health, there are approximately 1.5 million osteoporotic fractures in the U.S. each year that lead to half a million hospitalizations, over 800,000 emergency room encounters, more than 2,600,000 physician office visits, and the placement of nearly 180,000 individuals in nursing homes.

The disease causes nearly half a million hospital admissions in the United States a year, about 2 million visits to the emergency room and thousands of deaths annually.

Specifically, the researchers mined the data to identify people with ADHD whose records showed periods of ADHD medication use and periods without ADHD medication use — as well as one or more visits to the emergency room due to drug or alcohol use.

According to Landers, implementing changes to the Medicare policy means utilization of home health agencies for management of acute and chronic health conditions reduces the risk of emergency room visits and rehospitalization, thereby reducing healthcare costs for both the government and the patient.

A UA - led team of researchers created a model that was able to predict with 75 percent accuracy how many asthma - related emergency room visits a hospital could expect on a given day.

Children were assessed for asthma symptoms — including but not limited to cough without a cold, inability to speak full sentences due to asthma and disrupted sleep — asthma - related health care use (acute care visits, emergency room visits or hospitalizations in three months prior to each assessment), asthma medication use and maximal symptoms days, defined as the highest number of days that the child had three different types of asthma symptoms in the two weeks prior to the visit or phone call.

According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, an estimated 171,000 Canadians visited emergency rooms for allergic reactions from 2013 to 2014, the rate of anaphylaxis visits increased by 95 per cent from 2006 to 2014, and the severity of reactions is increasing.

They also have been shown to decrease missed days of school, emergency room visits and hospital admissions.

UTIs lead to lost work time, emergency room visits and health care spending of $ 3.5 billion in the United States.

These concussions are the result of sport or recreational activities and based on visits to the emergency room.

From 1999 to 2011, ATV accidents were connected to an average of 745 estimated deaths and 128,000 estimated emergency room visits per year, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

Each year in the United States, accidental carbon monoxide poisoning results in hundreds of deaths, more than 20,000 emergency room visits and more than 4,000 hospitalizations, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.