Ambulatory Follow-Up Visits After Emergency Department Discharge Among Medicaid Beneficiaries

Michelle P Lin; Canada Parrish; Laura G Burke; Ryan C Burke; Amber Sabbatini

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.41182

Ambulatory Follow-Up Visits After Emergency Department Discharge Among Medicaid Beneficiaries

JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Oct 1;7(10):e2441182. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.41182.

Authors

Michelle P Lin¹, Canada Parrish², Laura G Burke^{3

4

5}, Ryan C Burke^{3

4}, Amber Sabbatini²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cohort study examines Medicaid beneficiary visits to emergency departments (EDs) in Washington state from 2009 to 2017 to investigate the association between time to follow-up visit and 30-day ED revisits.

Grants and funding

K23 HL143042/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States