Pathways to Reduced Emergency Department and Urgent Care Center Use: Lessons from the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative

Lori Timmins, Deborah Peikes and Nancy McCall

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Abstract: This study finds that greater access to the primary care practice and more effective primary care both likely contributed to the lower growth in emergency department and urgent care center visits during the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative.

Keywords: access to care; Emergency departments; health care reform; Medicare savings programs; potentially avoidable visits; potentially preventable visits; primary care; urgent care centers; utilization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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