Primary care physician access and gatekeeping : A key to reducing Emergency Department use.

Primary care physician access and gatekeeping : A key to reducing Emergency Department use.

Réf. 138859 Article - En anglais

CLINICAL PEDIATRICS, vol. 36, n° 2, 1997, pages 63-68, 25 réf., ISSN 0009-9228, USA

FRANCO (S.M.), MITCHELL (C.K.) ^*, BUZON (R.M.) ^*

Department of Pediatrics. University of Louisville. KY. USA

Use of the Emergency Department (ED) for nonurgent conditions results in increased cost and discontinuous health care.
This prospective study evaluated a program (KenPAC) that required 24-hour access to a primary care physician (PCP) with ED gatekeeping responsibility.
Following established criteria, medical records were reviewed for appropriateness of ED use by an urban indigent pediatric population.
Emergency Department visits declined (10% to 7.6% (P=0.00005) and inappropriate visits dropped (41% to 8%) (P<0.00001) before KenPAC and after KenPAC, respectively.
Parental experience, as judged by age and number of children, played a significant role in ED use.
The institution of gatekeeping activity contributed to the reduced overall and inappropriate use of the ED.

Mots-clés BDSP : Service urgence, Homme, Maîtrise dépense, Soins santé primaire, Enfant, Critère sélection, Hôpital

Mots-clés Pascal : Urgence, Accessibilité, Homme, Rapport coût bénéfice, Contrôle coût, Soin santé primaire, Enfant, Critère sélection, Hôpital

Mots-clés Pascal anglais : Emergency, Accessibility, Human, Cost benefit ratio, Cost control, Primary health care, Child, Selection criterion, Hospital

Notice produite par :
Inist-CNRS - Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique

Cote : 97-0186875
Code Inist : 002B30A05. Création : 21/05/1997.

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