Medical Economics March 20, 2025
Study finds discrepancy between patients and doctors on emergency visit urgency
A study reveals a significant gap between how patients and emergency room doctors assess the urgency of medical conditions, with agreement occurring only 38% to 57% of the time. The research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, raises concerns about the effectiveness of policies aimed at reducing non-emergency visits to emergency departments.
Led by Benjamin Ukert of the Texas A&M University School of Public Health, along with colleagues from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of South Carolina, the study analyzed 190.7 million ED visits among adults from 2018 and 2019. The team compared the reasons patients provided for seeking emergency care with...
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