Insight Into Health Care Services: A Characterization of Emergency Room Visits and Economic Hazards in the United States.

摘要: OBJECTIVE This study explores the impact of economic hazard areas on hospital-based emergency departments to determine whether economically hazardous environments, characterized by change population, income per capita, and unemployment rate, experience a higher number room visits than lower rated risk in United States. METHOD A cross-sectional design was used nationally constructed data set over 6,000 hospitals We identified our quality outcome measure as rate within hospital service area. created variable dividing population services area which located. RESULTS Results indicate that there is difference incident ratio between environments considered be experiencing greater amounts hazard, compared hazard. CONCLUSION Hospital administrators health policy-makers need work conjunction focus efforts public safety key objective delivery medical care. One crucial effort improving capacity efficiency part disaster preparedness plan (Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2019;13:470-475).