| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w27098 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 27098 |
| Office Visits Preventing Emergency Room Visits: Evidence From the Flint Water Switch | |
| Shooshan Danagoulian; Daniel S. Grossman; David Slusky | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-05-04 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Emergency department visits are costly to providers and to patients. We use the Flint water crisis to test if an increase in office visits reduced avoidable emergency room visits. In September 2015, the city of Flint issued a lead advisory to its residents, alerting them of increased lead levels in their drinking water, resulting from the switch in water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Using Medicaid claims for 2013-2016, we find that this information shock increased the share of enrollees who had lead tests performed by 1.7 percentage points. Additionally, it increased office visits immediately following the information shock and led to a reduction of 4.9 preventable, non-emergent, and primary-care-treatable emergency room visits per 1000 eligible children (8.2%). This decrease is present in shifts from emergency room visits to office visits across several common conditions. Our analysis suggest that children were more likely to receive care from the same clinic following lead tests and that establishing care reduced the likelihood parents would take their children to emergency rooms for conditions treatable in an office setting. Our results are potentially applicable to any situation in which individuals are induced to seek more care in an office visit setting. |
| 主题 | Subnational Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w27098 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/584771 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Shooshan Danagoulian,Daniel S. Grossman,David Slusky. Office Visits Preventing Emergency Room Visits: Evidence From the Flint Water Switch. 2020. |
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| 文件名称/大小 | 资源类型 | 版本类型 | 开放类型 | 使用许可 | ||
| w27098.pdf（737KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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