Comparison of patient visits to emergency departments, physician offices, and dental offices for dental problems and injuries.

摘要: Objectives: Our understanding of the use emergency departments (EDs) and physician offices for management dental problems is limited. We undertook this study to examine whether there are differences in their by low-income White minority adults as compared with higher-income adults. Methods: Participants included White, Black, Hispanic who had experienced a problem during previous 12 months visited physician, ED, or dentist treatment. selected stratified random sample 27,002 Maryland households listed telephones screen eligibility. identified 1,387 an eligible adult, 423 interviews, completed interviews 401 (94.8%). Results: To restore correct proportionality sample, adjust nonresponse distribution demographic characteristics, weights were created analyses. Only 7.1 percent respondents contacted while 14.3 90.2 dentist. The vast majority ED (96.0%) (92.2%) also Lower-income more likely seek care from Overwhelmingly, visiting EDs (89.4%) physicians (51.7%) instructed see given prescriptions/samples. Treatment provided EDs, physicians, dentists was not associated respondent's income race/ethnicity. Conclusions: Respondents typically did receive definitive subsequently