Patchwork access. Primary care in EDs on the rise.
It's been long known that EDs in the nation's largest cities routinely provide non-emergent primary care. But a new study by the AHA and several allied hospital associations has found that a very high proportion of ED visits in each of the four communities studied could have been handled outside the ED.
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