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Emergency department usage by uninsured patients in Galveston County, Texas.
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Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings
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July 1, 2008
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- Baillargeon, Jacques; Paar, David; Giordano, Thomas P.; Zachariah, Brian; Rudkin, Laura L.; Wu, Z. Helen; Raimer, Ben G.
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The number of uninsured Texas residents who rely on the medical emergency department as their primary health care provider continues to increase. Unfortunately, little information about the characteristics of this group of emergency department users is available. Using an administrative billing database, we conducted a descriptive study to examine the demographic and clinical features of 17,110 consecutive patients without medical insurance who presented to the emergency department of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston over a 12-month period. We also analyzed the risk of multiple emergency department visits or hospitalization according to demographic ...
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