MedPage Today December 3, 2020
More children visited urgent care and retail health clinics in 2019 compared with years prior, but disparities related to which children are accessing these clinics are emerging, according to data from the National Health Interview Survey.
Nationally, 26.4% of children visited urgent care and retail health clinics, typically located in grocery stores or pharmacies, at least once in the past year, reported Lindsey I. Black, MPH, and Benjamin Zablotsky, PhD, of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) in Hyattsville, Maryland.
Children with private or public insurance accessed care at one such clinic at similar rates (27.6% vs 25.2%), but uninsured children accessed them at lower rates (19.3%), the researchers wrote in an NCHS Data Brief.
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