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Annotation: The project's major goal was to prevent childhood emergencies and to improve emergency medical services for children in Ohio by building local support and developing effective local emergency medical systems with linkage to referral centers. Specific project goals included establishing local emergency medical service (EMS) advisory councils; developing train-the-trainer programs for local emergency department personnel; developing networks linking local EMS systems with local emergency department personnel and pediatric medical consultants, and linking demonstration areas with regional children's hospitals and pediatric medical centers; and developing public information and education programs. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Data Collection, Emergency Medical Services for Children, Emergency Room Personnel, Rural Population

Annotation: This report provides information on the cost and prevalence of emergency department (ED) visits for non-traumatic oral conditions (NTOCs). It offers an overview of problems associated with using the ED for oral health care. It presents statistical information on topics including the number of people who visited the ED for NTOCs in 2019, 2021, and 2022; the estimated total cost of visits; the rates of ED visits; the rate of visits by age groups; and the rate of visits by people living in different types of rural and urban areas.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Age factors, Costs, Data, Emergency medicine, Emergency room data, Income factors, Medicaid, Oral health, Rural population, Trends, Urban population

Annotation: This fact sheet provides information about the effects of reinstating Hawai'i's adult Medicaid dental benefits in 2022. Statistics are presented on the number of Hawai'i Medicaid beneficiaries with no diagnostic, preventive, or dental coverage and who visited the emergency department (ED) with a dental-related diagnosis between 2016 and 2020, the total cost of ED visits with a principal dental diagnosis during this period, and the percentage of ER visits with a principal dental diagnosis during this period who were Medicaid beneficiaries. Also provided are estimated savings from reinstating the benefits as well as information about the association between poor oral health and several chronic conditions and other negative health outcomes. [Produced by District of Columbia Department of Health]

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Keywords: Access to health care, Chronic illnesses and disabilities, Costs, Dental insurance, Emergency room data, Hawaii, Low income groups, Medicaid, Oral health, Prevention, State information, Statistical data

Annotation: This report presents findings from a review of studies on the use of emergency departments for nontraumatic oral health conditions and oral health care. The report discusses variations in target populations, outcomes of interest, predictive factors, data sources, and research methods. Recommendations for future research are included.

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Keywords: Emergency room data, Health care utilization, Hospital emergency services, Oral health, Oral health care, Research methodology, Utilization review

Annotation: This brief reports findings on trends in visits to emergency departments for oral health care for the period 2006 through 2012. Topics include visits and charges broken down by patient age and primary payer, and policy implications.

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Keywords: Data analysis, Emergency room data, Financing, Health care utilization, Hospital emergency services, Oral health, Oral health care, Policy development, Statistical data, Trends

Annotation: This report summarizes data on oral-health-related emergency department use in Oregon and describes findings from qualitative analyses of oral health community stakeholder interviews. Topics include factors related to emergency department use for nontraumatic conditions (NTCs), potential solutions that could be implemented to reduce NTC-related emergency department use, and prevention-oriented policy solutions.

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Keywords: , Access to health care, Emergency room data, Health care utilization, Health services delivery, Oral health, Oregon, Policy development, Statewide planning

Annotation: This brief examines the urgency of emergency department visits for dental conditions in the United States. Topics include the percentage of dental and nondental emergency department visits by triage status (immediate, urgent, semi-urgent, and nonurgent), primary payer (private health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance Program, and self-pay), and time of arrival (during and outside business hours). Policy implications are included.

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Keywords: Data analysis, Emergency room data, Oral health, Policy development, Third party payers, Triage

Annotation: This issue brief looks at what research shows overall about the difference that Medicaid makes in terms of access to care, health outcomes, and quality of care. Topics include the purpose of health insurance, who Medicaid beneficiaries are, the benefits of being enrolled in Medicaid vs. being uninsured, access to preventive and primary care, access to specialist care, emergency department use, quality of care, health center care, and hospital care.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Emergency room data, Enrollment, Health insurance, Hospitals, Low income groups, Medicaid, Preventive health services, Primary care, Uninsured persons

Annotation: This report presents recent data on trends in asthma prevalence, health care encounters, and mortality. Topic include differences in prevalence by age, sex, income, race, ethnicity, and demographics; rates of asthma health care encounters in primary settings, emergency departments, and hospitals; death rates; and death rate differences by sex, race, and age.

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Keywords: Age factors, Asthma, Death, Emergency room data, Ethnic factors, Health care, Hospitalization, Income factors, Mortality, Primary care, Racial factors, Sex factors, Trends

Annotation: This analysis examines patterns of oral-heath-care seeking in emergency departments (EDs). The authors look at ED claims data in seven states—Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Maryland, Utah, Vermont, and Wisconsin—to understand between- and within-state differences in ED use. Topics include state differences in the types of oral conditions that lead individuals to seek care in EDs, differences in rural vs. urban areas, and differences in patterns of oral-health-care seeking in EDs associated with state Medicaid policy.

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Keywords: Wisconsin, Access to health care, Arizona, Children, Data, Emergency room data, Florida, Health services delivery, Hospital emergency services, Iowa, Maryland, Oral health, State surveys, Utah, Vermont

Annotation: This demonstration project strove to enhance the emergency medical services (EMS) system in North Carolina by improving the system's ability to manage pediatric patients. The project goal was to create a statewide model EMS system that minimizes further injury or deterioration of seriously ill or injured pediatric patients prior to their arrival at a definitive care center. We created a project group and an advisory board to help achieve the project goals through a cooperative statewide effort that included representation from all groups responsible for the care of seriously ill and injured pediatric patients. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Databases, Emergency Medical Services for Children, Emergency Room Personnel, Pediatric Advanced Life Support Programs, Professional Education in EMSC

Annotation: This document presents a picture of injuries in the State of Massachusetts in a five-year period. The surveillance and research produced a look at how injuries occur and to whom, the number and rate of injuries at the local level and made recommendations on injury prevention programming for Massachusetts. Injury pictures produced profiles on age, sex, cause of injury, potential years of life lost and a breakdown of injuries by locality. Specific interventions and recommendations were included in the conclusion. A summary report is also available. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Data, Emergency room data, External cause of injury codes, Hospital discharge data, Injury prevention, Intervention, Mortality, Needs assessment, Population surveillance, Research, Residential injuries, State plans, Transportation injuries