The Journal of Emergency Medicine
Volume 38, Issue 2 , Pages 115-121, February 2010

A Comparison of Frequent and Infrequent Visitors to an Urban Emergency Department

  • Elizabeth Sandoval, BA

      Affiliations

    • University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    • ,
  • Sandy Smith, PHD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    • ,
  • James Walter, MD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    • ,
  • Sarah-Anne Henning Schuman, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    • ,
  • Mary Pat Olson, RN, MSPH

      Affiliations

    • Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council, Chicago, Illinois
    • ,
  • Rebecca Striefler, LCSW

      Affiliations

    • American Red Cross of Greater Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    • ,
  • Stephen Brown, MSW

      Affiliations

    • University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
    • ,
  • John Hickner, MD, MSC

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint Address: John Hickner, md, msc, Department of Family Medicine, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, 5841 S. Maryland Ave., MC7110 Room M-160, Chicago, IL 60637

Received 29 November 2006; received in revised form 10 September 2007; accepted 12 September 2007. published online 08 May 2008.

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 This study was supported in part by a Healthy Community Access Program grant from the Bureau of Primary Health Care of the Health Resources and Services Administration.

PII: S0736-4679(08)00026-7

doi:10.1016/j.jemermed.2007.09.042

The Journal of Emergency Medicine
Volume 38, Issue 2 , Pages 115-121, February 2010

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