Community care emergency room use and specialty care leakage from Veterans Health Administration hospitals.

Sivagaminathan Palani Melissa M Garrido Kertu Tenso Steven D Pizer

Published in: Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (2023)

Veterans who have a CC ED visit have a greater proportion of subsequent specialty care visits in CC hospitals and clinics than Veterans with a VA ED visit. This relationship persists when we examine Veterans whose decision to go to a CC ED is influenced by VA ED physician capacity rather than general preferences for CC.

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