Association between Insurance Status and Access to Hospital Care in Emergency Department Disposition

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Acute Disease 9%
• Asthma 6%
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 7%
• Critical Care 37%
• Cross-Sectional Studies 5%
• Diagnosis-Related Groups 9%
• Health Care Outcome Assessment 5%
• Hospital Emergency Service 68%
• Hospitalization 6%
• Incidence 4%
• Insurance Coverage 100%
• Lung 4%
• Lung Diseases 7%
• Medicaid 28%
• Medicare 8%
• Motivation 6%
• Odds Ratio 11%
• Ownership 10%
• Patient Discharge 9%
• Patient Transfer 10%
• Pneumonia 6%
• Public Hospitals 9%