Healthcare DIVE September 12, 2019
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...