Primary Care Comprehensiveness and Care Coordination in Robust Specialist Networks Results in Lower Emergency Department Utilization: A Network Analysis of Medicaid Physician Networks

Primary Care Comprehensiveness and Care Coordination in Robust Specialist Networks Results in Lower Emergency Department Utilization: A Network Analysis of Medicaid Physician Networks

Background: Care coordination is an essential and difficult to measure function of primary care. Objective: Our objective was to assess the impact of network characteristics in primary/specialty physician networks on emergency department (ED) visits for patients with chronic ambulatory care sensitiv...

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Main Authors: Zhaowei She, Anne H. Gaglioti, Peter Baltrus, Chaohua Li, Miranda A. Moore, Lilly C. Immergluck, Arthi Rao, Turgay Ayer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-06-01
Series:Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2150132720924432

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https://doi.org/10.1177/2150132720924432

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