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    "pk": 19263,
    "title": "Factors Influencing Emergency Department Preference for Access to Health Care",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Introduction: African-Americans are more likely than Caucasians to access healthcare through the emergency department (ED); however, the reasons behind this pattern are unclear. The objective is to investigate the effect of race, insurance, socioeconomic status, and perceived health on the preference for ED use.\nMethods: This is a prospective study at a tertiary care ED from June to July 2009. Patients were surveyed to capture demographics, healthcare utilization, and baseline health status. The primary outcome of interest was patient-reported routine place of healthcare. Other outcomes included frequency of ED visits in the previous 6 months, barriers to primary care and patient perception of health using select questions from the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form 36 (SF-36).\nResults: Two hundred and ninety-two patients completed the survey of whom 58% were African-American and 44% were uninsured. African-Americans were equally likely to report 3 or more visits to the ED, but more likely to state a preference for the ED for their usual place of care (24% vs. 13%, p < 0.01). No significant differences between groups were found for barriers to primary care, including insurance. African-Americans less often reported comorbidities or hospitalization within the previous 6 months (23% vs. 34%, p = 0.04). On logistic regression modeling, African-Americans were more than 2 times as likely to select the ED as their usual place of healthcare (OR 2.24, 95% CI 1.22 - 4.08).\n \nConclusion: African-Americans, independent of health insurance, are more likely than Caucasians to designate the ED as their routine place of healthcare. [West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(5):410-415.]",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Race"
        },
        {
            "word": "Insurance"
        },
        {
            "word": "Preferences"
        },
        {
            "word": "health care"
        },
        {
            "word": "access"
        },
        {
            "word": "Community Health and Preventive Medicine"
        },
        {
            "word": "Emergency Medicine"
        },
        {
            "word": "Other Social and Behavioral Sciences"
        },
        {
            "word": "Preventative Medicine"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Emergency Department Access",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Lindsay",
            "middle_name": "E",
            "last_name": "Brown",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Ryan",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Burton",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Section of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Brian",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Hixon",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Center for Surgical, Medical Acute Care Research and Transitions, Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Manasi",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kakade",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Section of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Parul",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Bhagalia",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Section of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Catherine",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Vick",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Center for Surgical, Medical Acute Care Research and Transitions, Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Andrew",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Edwards",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Emergency Medicine, Birmingham Alabama",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Mary",
            "middle_name": "T",
            "last_name": "Hawn",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Section of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama\nCenter for Surgical, Medical Acute Care Research and Transitions, Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2011-06-03T20:23:41Z",
    "date_accepted": "2011-06-03T20:23:41Z",
    "date_published": "2012-09-18T22:28:37Z",
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