The authors of the study defined frequent ED users as a patient who visited the ED four or more times in one year and determined frequent users made up 8 percent of EDs’ total patient population. Sixty percent are white, and 60 percent are also Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, according to the report.
Only 15 percent of frequent ED users were uninsured and only 2 percent of uninsured patients visited the ED four or more times in a year, according to the study.
Read the AMNews report about frequent ED users.
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