1 option
Check Up Before You Check Out: Retail Clinics and Emergency Room Use / Diane Alexander, Janet Currie, Molly Schnell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alexander, Diane.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w23585.
- NBER working paper series no. w23585
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Check Up Before You Check Out
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017.
- Summary:
- The retail clinic is an innovation that has the potential to improve competition in health care markets. Given concern about inefficient use of the emergency room (ER) increasing health care costs, we use all ER visits in New Jersey from 2006-2014 to examine the impact of retail clinics on ER usage. We find that people residing close to an open clinic are 4.1-12.3 percent less likely to use an ER for preventable conditions and for minor acute conditions. Our estimates suggest annual cost savings of over $70 million from reduced ER usage if retail clinics were readily available across New Jersey.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2017.
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.