Healthcare DIVE September 12, 2019
Linda Wilson

Dive Brief:

  • If they can’t get in to see a doctor quickly, 65% of people responding to a new survey head to the emergency room, while 30% treat themselves and 25% put off getting care, according to an online survey commissioned by Zocdoc, a startup vendor of an online scheduling tool, and conducted by Kelton Global, a research company.
  • Even though the majority of respondents (84%) said they have a primary care doctor, 33% have gone the emergency room for non-urgent medical care. And younger generations (44% of Generation Z, 33% of Generation X, and 41% of millennials) are more likely than baby boomers (23%) to have used the emergency room for routine medical care.
  • Some 31% of survey...

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