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    Position Statement: Hospital Misuse Prevention and Awareness

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    This position statement discusses the problem of overcrowding in America's hospital emergency rooms due to unnecessary use. It states that overcrowding can lead to delayed treatment for urgent cases and even death. The document recommends educating the public on appropriate emergency room use and promoting alternatives like primary care visits to help reduce overcrowding. It suggests factors like a growing elderly population, high rates of uninsured immigrants, and Medicaid expansion may contribute to rising emergency room misuse and the associated increased healthcare costs.

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    Position Statement: Hospital Misuse Prevention and Awareness

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    This position statement discusses the problem of overcrowding in America's hospital emergency rooms due to unnecessary use. It states that overcrowding can lead to delayed treatment for urgent cases and even death. The document recommends educating the public on appropriate emergency room use and promoting alternatives like primary care visits to help reduce overcrowding. It suggests factors like a growing elderly population, high rates of uninsured immigrants, and Medicaid expansion may contribute to rising emergency room misuse and the associated increased healthcare costs.

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    This position statement discusses the problem of overcrowding in America's hospital emergency rooms due to unnecessary use. It states that overcrowding can lead to delayed treatment for urgent cases and even death. The document recommends educating the public on appropriate emergency room use and promoting alternatives like primary care visits to help reduce overcrowding. It suggests factors like a growing elderly population, high rates of uninsured immigrants, and Medicaid expansion may contribute to rising emergency room misuse and the associated increased healthcare costs.

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    Position Statement: Hospital Misuse Prevention and Awareness

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    Kelly Icke
    This position statement discusses the problem of overcrowding in America's hospital emergency rooms due to unnecessary use. It states that overcrowding can lead to delayed treatment for urgent cases and even death. The document recommends educating the public on appropriate emergency room use and promoting alternatives like primary care visits to help reduce overcrowding. It suggests factors like a growing elderly population, high rates of uninsured immigrants, and Medicaid expansion may contribute to rising emergency room misuse and the associated increased healthcare costs.

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    Position Statement

    Hospital Misuse Prevention and Awareness Education on proper hospital use is important to prevent over crowding and unnecessary use of Americas emergency rooms.
    Many Americans today are facing the harsh consequences of overcrowding in hospitals. This can result in consequences including delayed meetings with doctors in an urgent situation. Unfortunately for some Americans that face serious injuries, death can be a sad result of this overcrowding. Informing the American public is the best way to prevent overuse of emergency rooms. One of the worst problems for hospitals is overcrowding due to insured patients who do not have true emergencies. Some non-urgent reasons that would not require a hospital visit are check-ups, minor car accidents, ultrasounds, ear infections, and dizziness. A 2007 survey distributed in California showed that 46 percent of emergency room patients could have been treated by a private doctor. Many Americans simply do not understand how to handle sudden medical problems, so they in turn run to the emergency room. It is wishful thinking to believe that every American should be able to do so. Any citizens that argue to be able to use the emergency room for things like influenza should consider the harsh consequences. Increased overcrowding of ED can lead to increased health care costs and decreased moral of ED doctors and nurses. Not only is the basic flu treateable by a family doctor, but only 37 percent of Americans get their flu shot annually. It is important for Americans to think of realistic alternatives and prevention of excessive emergency room use. It is undetermined which factor triggers the use of more emergency room visits in larger verses smaller populations. Numbers show that more individuals use the emergency room in densely populated areas whether they are uninsured or not. It is suspected that the high rate of Hispanic immigration in America is also at fault for the steady rise of unnecessary emergency room use. Hispanics already use the emergency room 30 percent more than Caucasian population and about 10 percent more than African Americans. Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries are suspected to increase the use of emergency room visits as the baby boomer generation retires. Increases in private insurance costs could result in increases in Medicaid and other public coverage of elderly people. All of these factors will contribute to overcrowding in hospitals in our present and future. Personal doctor visits could be used to replace about 25 percent of non-urgent hospital visits annually. Lowering emergency room usage for non-urgent medical problems could help lower health care costs and even benefit patients experiences with the health care system. Some strategies to hopefully lower the use of emergency rooms are to increase the number of health maintenance organizations. This may lead to a lower use of emergency room visits for poor and low-income people. Health maintenance organizations offer health services to its members who pay a fix cost each month in return. Another option would be to increase outpatient capacity. This means sending patients to an outpatient clinic to receive care instead of using the emergency room. By treating patients in a clinic aside from the emergency room, there could potentially be a 41 percent decrease in high-use communities.

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    California Healthcare Foundation. (2013). Overuse of emergency departments among insured Californians. Retrieved March 17, 2013 from http://www.chcf.org/publications/2006/10/overuse-of-emergencydepartments-among-insured-californians California Healthcare Foundation. (2006). Overuse of emergency departments among insured Californians. Retrieved March 17, 2013 from http://www.chcf.org/~/media/MEDIA%LIBRARY%20Files/PDF/E/PDF%2 0EDOveruse.pdf Cunningham, P.J. (2006). What accounts for differences in the use of hospital emergency department use defies simple solutions such as expanding insurance coverage or restricting access for noncitizens. Health Affairs, 25(1), 325-335. doi: 10.1377/hithaff.25.w324 Jaslow, R. (2013, January 8). Flu influx causes Chicago hospitals to run away patients. CBS News. Retrieved from http://www.cbsnews.com/8301204_162-57562846/flu-influx-causes-chicago-hospitals-to-turnaway-patients/

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