2014 Healthcare Benchmarks: Reducing Avoidable ER Visits Emergency Room High-Utilizers: Most Frequently Presented Conditions

What Is Most Frequently Presented Among Emergency Room High Utilizers?

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Industry reforms, expanded coverage under insurance exchanges, Medicaid expansion, and shifting healthcare delivery models continue to influence emergency room utilization. In response, healthcare organizations employ a variety of strategies to reduce avoidable ER use.

2014 Healthcare Benchmarks: Reducing Avoidable ER Visits2014 Healthcare Benchmarks: Reducing Avoidable ER Visits delivers actionable metrics from 125 healthcare organizations on their efforts to foster appropriate use of hospital emergency departments.

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Enhanced with more than 50 easy-to-follow graphs and tables, this third edition of comprehensive data points presents year-over-year trends and best practices for engaging ER and hospital staff, primary care physicians, community providers and patients in reducing avoidable ED utilization.

This report provides a wealth of data to identify organizational strengths, weaknesses and opportunities, including the following:

  • Prevalence of programs to promote appropriate ER use;
  • Top populations contributing to avoidable ER use;
  • Presentation characteristics of ER 'high utilizers';
  • Tactics to engage primary care physicians in appropriate ER use;
  • Patient- and ER staff-level solutions to encourage appropriate ED utilization;
  • Tools and technologies to monitor and reduce avoidable ER visits;
  • ROI from programs to reduce avoidable ED utilization;
  • Sector-specific results from survey respondents;
  • The complete August 2014 Reducing Avoidable ER Visits survey tool;
  • and much more.

New in the 2014 Edition:

  • Impact of the Affordable Care Act's expanded coverage mandate for emergency visits;
  • Trends in ER utilization by individuals with chronic diseases;
  • Metrics on post-visit patient follow-up intervals;
  • Use of standardized scripts by ER staff;
  • The most successful tools, processes or workflows for reducing avoidable ER visits, in respondents' own words;
  • Ranking of tools improving overall emergency room efficiency;
  • Feedback on legal and compliance obstacles;
  • Opinion: anticipated impact on ER use of CMS's gradual easing of telemedicine restrictions;
  • and more.

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