Austin, USA. En 6 años, 9 personas usaron servicios de emergencia hospitalaria casi 2,700 veces.
Report: 9 People Visited ER 2,678 Times in 6 Years
Just nine people accounted for nearly 2,700 of the emergency room visits in the Austin area during the past six years at a cost of $3 million to taxpayers and others, according to a report.
The patients went to hospital emergency rooms 2,678 times from 2003 through 2008, said the report from the nonprofit Integrated Care Collaboration, a group of health care providers who care for low-income and uninsured patients.
"What we're really trying to do is find out who's using our emergency rooms ... and find solutions," said Ann Kitchen, executive director of the group, which presented the report last week to the Travis County Healthcare District board.
The average emergency room visit costs $1,000. Hospitals and taxpayers paid the bill through government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, Kitchen said.
Se habrá hecho igual estadística en Buenos Aires ? O en Quebec ?
Aproximadamente el 40% de la población no tiene médico de cabecera en Québec. En otras provincias la cifra es mayor. ¿Qué hace la gente cuando se enferma? Exactamente lo que describe el artículo. Va a la guardia de un hospital o clínica.
ReplyDeleteMi vecina va a la guardia hasta para que le renueven la receta de pastillas anticonceptivas.
una visita cada 11 días de promedio
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