Emergency department utilization among adult patients diagnosed with chronic pain and depression from an urban safety-net patient population

BACKGROUND: Patients visit the emergency department (ED) for life-threatening conditions, such as broken bones or chest pain, and non-life threatening conditions such as medication refills and pain management. Patients may make ED visits for non-life threatening conditions because they lack access t...

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Main Author: Enad, Racquel
Language:en_US
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2144/19185