Factors influencing inappropriate use of ED visits among type 2 diabetics in an evidence-based management programme

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
Shang-Jyh ChiouRonald Horswell

Abstract

This study analyses inappropriate use of emergency department (ED) services among type 2 diabetics under an evidence-based management programme. Using 1999-2006 databases of Louisiana Health Care Services Division (HCSD) eight public hospitals ED visits among the uninsured and other patients in Louisiana, we termed urgent ED visits appropriate and less-urgent visits inappropriate. Eliminating weekend ED visits, 17,458 urgent and 22,395 less-urgent visits by 8596 patients were analysed, using generalized estimating equation methods. Caucasians were 0.82 times (95% CI: 0.751-0.889) less likely to use the ED inappropriately compared with African Americans. Patients with commercial insurance, Medicaid and Medicare used the ED more inappropriately than uninsured, with odds ratios of 1.28, 1.32 and 1.28, respectively. Patients hospitalized the prior year were 0.84 times (95% CI: 1.08-1.31) less likely for inappropriate. Patients in larger hospitals used the ED more inappropriately, with an odds ratio of 1.44 (95% CI: 1.32-1.56). The study suggests that inappropriate use of the ED among diabetic patients in an evidence-based management programme is more likely to occur among African American, patients with insurance coverage and those...Continue Reading

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