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Fact Based List:
Where Patients Go for Acute Care Vists
Submitted By Spencer Rinkus, Created 09/08/2010 - 10:31
- 42% go to personal physician
- 28% go to emergency department
- 20% go to specialists
- 7% go to outpatient departments
Source: Health Affairs, September 2010; 29(9): 1620-1629.
Source URL: http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/29/9/1620
Notes: Stephen R. Pitts, Emily R. Carrier, Eugene C. Rich, and Arthur L. Kellermann. Where Americans Get Acute Care: Increasingly, It’s Not At Their Doctor’s Office.