Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Fellow Dr. Kelly Doran was recently published in Annals of Emergency Medicine.
“What Drives Frequent Emergency Department Use in an Integrated Health System? National Data from the Veterans Health Administration” reports on a cross-sectional analysis of national VHA database that Doran and her colleagues conducted.
The study objective states: “There is widespread concern about patients with frequent emergency department (ED) use. We identify sociodemographic and clinical factors most strongly associated with frequent ED use within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) nationally.”
Doran’s study has major implications for health services and health policy, according to her mentor Dr. Federico Vaca. The paper was posted on the journal’s website as an early release. Read Doran’s article here.