Patterns of Medical Care among Users of Hospital Emergency Units
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9100093 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jerry A Solon, Jerry Solon (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, corresponding author), Ruth D Rigg |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 60-72 |
| Publication date | 1972-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Care (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/00005650-197201000-00007 |
| PMID | 5007753 |
| OpenAlex | W2020710690 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 2 |
In over a dozen years during which considerable research on emergency units has accumulated, only a few studies have seriously looked beyond the immediate visit to the emergency unit. None has systematically represented the patients’ full methods of getting medical care. The present study was designed to do this by documenting for each emergency unit patient his overall pattern of medical care from all sources. The resulting analysis reflects not only a variety of medical care patterns within an emergency unit’s patient population, but also distinctive differences between two differently situated hospitals—one in an inner-city setting with a substantial lower-class population, the other in a suburban middle-class milieu. The data reported become a vehicle for conveying an overriding principle, important both for medical practice and for research in health services organization and delivery: that comprehension of the patients’ overall patterns of obtaining medical care is needed in order to understand, and properly to exercise, the role of the hospital emergency unit
Family medicine · Medical emergency · MEDLINE · Political science · Emergency and Acute Care Studies · Emergency Medical Services · Emergency Medicine · Medicine
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| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1975 - 1992 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |