ArticleCureus2021
Enhancing Value-Based Care With a Walk-in Clinic: A Primary Care Provider Intervention to Decrease Low Acuity Emergency Department Overutilization.
Article in Cureus, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Operational Impact of Redirection From the Pediatric Emergency Department: A Matched Cross-Sectional Study.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2025Article
- General Practice-led urgent care practice vs. emergency room - satisfaction of ambulatory patients with low urgency medical problems.The European journal of general practice · 2025Observational
- Emergency Department Utilization by Veterans for Low-Acuity Conditions After Virtual Care Expansion.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Urgent care centres for reducing the demand on emergency departments: a scoping review of published quantitative and qualitative studies.The Medical journal of Australia · 2025Article
- Access to episodic primary care: a cross-sectional comparison of walk-in clinics and urgent primary care centers in British Columbia.Primary health care research & development · 2023Article
- Comparable quality performance between telemedicine and office-based care for abnormal BMI screening and management.Obesity science & practice · 2023Article
- Interactive association of chronic illness and food insecurity with emergency department utilization among school-age children in the United States: A cross-sectional study.Health science reports · 2023Article
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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Background Emergency department overutilization is a known contributor to the high per-capita healthcare cost in the United States. There is a knowledge gap regarding the substitution effect of walk-in clinic availability in primary care provider (PCP) offices and emergency department utilization (EDU). This study evaluates associations between PCP availability and EDU and analyzes the potential cost savings for health systems. Methods A retrospective cohort analysis compared low acuity EDU rates in established patients at a family medicine residency's PCP office before and after walk-in clinic implementation. The practice had 12 providers, 12 residents, and a patient panel of approximately 7,000-8,000. Inclusion criteria were met if patients were: (1) established with the PCP office, (2) had a low acuity emergency department (ED) visit (emergency index score level 4 or 5)
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