Sentences with phrase «received emergency room care»

In 2015, 2,500 children received emergency room care as a result of gate - related injuries.

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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.

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.

According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, more than 920,000 athletes received care in an emergency room or doctor's office for football - related injuries in 2007.

The typical scenario would be that something had gone dreadfully wrong and the community midwives, after exploring their options, would finally, and receiving nothing but hostile response from the various hospitals, would have the patient transported to the hospital by ambulance and then they would all bolt and just leave the patient in the emergency room and to the care of whoever was on emergency call.

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.

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.

Patients who didn't seek follow - up care within a month received the lowest rate of care and had the worst health outcomes — demonstrating the need to improve follow - up with high risk chest pain patients after they're discharged from the emergency room, Ko said.

Patients who go to the emergency room (ER) with chest pain often receive unnecessary tests to evaluate whether they are having a heart attack, a practice that provides no clinical benefit and adds hundreds of dollars in health - care costs, according to a new study from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

The ACA was designed to substantially increase the millions of people who newly enroll in private health insurance coverage as well as the number of companies that provide it while at the same time reducing the number of uninsured people who had previously received primary care in emergency rooms.

Research led by Dr. Laffel reported that youngsters who received care ambassador support services enjoyed healthier outcomes than those who received standard care, including 40 % fewer trips to emergency rooms and half the number of severe low blood glucose episodes.

It's also very important for medical teams — not only oncology practices or centers but emergency - room staff, primary and urgent - care teams, intensive - care personnel, pulmonary doctors and other specialists — to know what therapies a patient is receiving and to be aware of the potential side effects and interactions that these treatments may cause.

In the emergency room, each case is triaged; the patients requiring the most urgent attention will receive the most immediate care.

HCA: Mr. Leopold is lead counsel in a class action lawsuit alleging that HCA hospitals bill inflated and exorbitant fees for radiology services provided in the emergency room to people involved in automobile accidents and receiving care that is covered by their Florida Personal Injury Protection (PIP) insurance.

While individuals only visit an emergency room to receive life - saving care, many leave with serious injuries, or pass away in the emergency room, as a result of the negligence of an emergency room doctor or other healthcare professional.

The expert will then be required to demonstrate how the emergency room treatment that the patient received did not meet that standard of care.

Your family doctor, or the doctor you see in a hospital emergency room (depending on where you go to receive immediate medical care after the accident) will examine you and refer you to a neurologist if they think this is necessary.

This case arrived at the Illinois Appellate Court as an interlocutory appeal that came about from the plaintiff Eric Owens's lawsuit against the defendant hospital, Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital, and its doctors related to the care received by Owens at the hospital's emergency room in 2011.

A visit to the emergency room means receiving immediate medical attention, but many of the medical services previously dealt with only by emergency rooms are now handled by private facilities known as urgent care centers.

The emergency room billing clerk says your claim was denied because your health insurance wasn't in effect on the day you received the care.