ArticlePloS one2015
The Relationship between Same-Day Access and Continuity in Primary Care and Emergency Department Visits.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Population-Level Health Intervention and Primary Care Quality for Veterans.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Advanced Access in Primary Healthcare and Its Effects on Emergency Department Utilization: A Rapid Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Healthcare Utilization Differences Among Primary Care Patients Using Telemedicine in the Veterans Health Administration: a Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of general internal medicine · 2024Observational
- Differences between recorded diagnoses of patients of an emergency department and office-hours primary care doctors: a register-based study in a Finnish town.International journal of circumpolar health · 2021Article
- Association of Secure Messaging with Primary Care In-Person and Telephone Visits Among Veterans: a Matched Difference-in-Difference Analysis.Journal of general internal medicine · 2021Article
- Development of a novel metric of timely care access to primary care services.Health services research · 2020Article
- Patient-Reported Access in the Patient-Centered Medical Home and Avoidable Hospitalizations: an Observational Analysis of the Veterans Health Administration.Journal of general internal medicine · 2019Observational
- Factors Affecting Emergency Department Use by a Chronically Homeless Population.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2016Article
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Abstract
We examined how emergency department (ED) visits for potentially preventable, mental health, and other diagnoses were related to same-day access and provider continuity in primary care using administrative data from 71,296 patients in 22 VHA clinics over a three-year period. ED visits were categorized as non-emergent; primary care treatable; preventable; not preventable; or mental health-related. We conducted multi-level regression models adjusted for patient and clinic factors. More same-day access significantly predicted fewer non-emergent and primary care treatable ED visits while continuity was not significantly related to any type of ED visit. Neither measure was related to ED visits for mental health problems.
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