Visiting the emergency department for dental problems: trends in utilization, 2001 to 2008

We tested the hypothesis that between 2001 and 2008, Americans increasingly relied upon emergency departments (EDs) for dental care. Data from 2001 through 2008 were collected from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS). Population-based visit rates for dental problems, and, f...

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Published in:American journal of public health (1971) 2012-11, Vol.102 (11), p.e77-e83
Main Authors: Lee, Helen H, Lewis, Charlotte W, Saltzman, Babette, Starks, Helene
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Adults
Aged
Asthma
Censuses
Child
Child, Preschool
Codes
Continental Population Groups - statistics & numerical data
Dental care
Dental insurance
Economic conditions
Emergency medical care
Emergency Service, Hospital - statistics & numerical data
Emergency Service, Hospital - trends
Emergency Service, Hospital - utilization
Female
Health care access
Health care policy
Health facilities
Hospitals
Humans
Hypotheses
Infant
Insurance coverage
Insurance Coverage - statistics & numerical data
Male
Medicaid
Medically Uninsured - statistics & numerical data
Medicare
Middle Aged
Online Research and Practice
Patients
Public health
Recessions
State budgets
Stomatognathic Diseases - therapy
Trends
Unemployment
Uninsured people
United States
Young Adult
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Summary:We tested the hypothesis that between 2001 and 2008, Americans increasingly relied upon emergency departments (EDs) for dental care. Data from 2001 through 2008 were collected from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS). Population-based visit rates for dental problems, and, for comparison, asthma, were calculated using annual US Census Bureau estimates. As part of the analysis, we described patient characteristics associated with large increases in ED dental utilization. Dental visit rates increased most dramatically for the following subpopulations: those aged 18 to 44 years (7.2-12.2 per 1000, P
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2012.300965