ArticleThe American journal of emergency medicine2016
Sex differences in frequent ED use among those with multimorbid chronic diseases.
Article in The American journal of emergency medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effective Interventions for Homebound Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review.Current diabetes reports · 2025Pooled it
- Emergency Department Visits and Hospital Admissions Among Older Adults With and Without Dementia Receiving Medicaid-Funded Home- and Community-Based Services.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2026Article
- Implementing brain health strategies in primary care: methods and baseline findings from the BHAM registry.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2025Article
- Healthcare utilization by patients with primary hyperparathyroidism What is the effect of kidney stone formation?Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada · 2025Article
- Sex Differences in Healthcare Utilization in Persons Living with Dementia Between 2000 and 2017: A Population-Based Study in Quebec, Canada.Journal of aging and health · 2025Article
- The HealthStreet Cancer Survivor Cohort: a Community Registry for Cancer Research.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2024Article
- Article
- Epidemiology and clinical characteristics of adult patients presenting to a low resource, tertiary care emergency department in Pakistan: Challenges & Outcomes.Pakistan journal of medical sciences · 2024Article
- Emergency services utilization by patients with alcohol-associated hepatitis: An analysis of national trends.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2024Article
- Article
- Shared Decision-Making and Emergency Department Use Among People With High Blood Pressure.Preventing chronic disease · 2023Observational
- Article
- Characteristics of frequent emergency department users in Korea: a 4-year retrospective analysis using Korea Health Panel Study data.Clinical and experimental emergency medicine · 2022Article
- Effects of Changes in Multiple Chronic Conditions on Medical Costs among Older Adults in South Korea.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Statistical tools used for analyses of frequent users of emergency department: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2019Article
- Emergency department imaging superusers.Emergency radiology · 2019Article
- Predictors of Emergent Emergency Department Visits and Costs in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.Health services insights · 2018Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
objectivesThe objectives were to examine the association between multimorbid chronic disease and frequency of past 6 months emergency department (ED) visits, by sex, in a community sample of adults from North Florida (N=7143).
methodsData came from HealthStreet, a community engagement program at the University of Florida which uses the Community Health Worker Model to assess community member health conditions and concerns, and willingness to participate in health research. Using logistic regression, we estimated associations between multimorbid chronic disease and frequent ED use using sex as an effect modifier.
resultsMultimorbid chronic disease was associated with frequent ED use overall, with a stronger association among men. Of the 7143 respondents, 14.4% were frequent ED users, 58.0% were female, and 61.5% were black non-Hispanic. Major findings included that women with 3+ chronic diseases were 2.49 (95% confidence interval, 1.7-3.6) times as likely as women without chronic diseases to report frequent ED use, compared with men with 3+ chronic diseases, who were 4.98 (95% confidence interval, 2.9-8.6) times as likely as men without chronic disease to report frequent ED use.
conclusionsMultimorbid chronic disease is very strongly associated with frequent ED use among all, but the association is especially strong among men. Future research is needed to further understand this association and its implication for health care.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.