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Analysis of ambulance transports and diversions among US emergency departmentsCatharine W Burt
Ambulatory Care Statistics Branch, Division of Health Care Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Ann Emerg Med 47:317-26. 2006..Using information on volume of transports and probabilities of being in diversion status, we estimate the number of patients for whom ED care was delayed because of diversion practices...
Emergency visits for sports-related injuriesC W Burt
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD, USA
Ann Emerg Med 37:301-8. 2001....
Factors associated with ability to treat pediatric emergencies in US hospitalsCatharine W Burt
Ambulatory Care Statistics Branch, Division of Health Care Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 23:681-9. 2007..The purpose of this analysis is to investigate hospital and community factors associated with the availability of pediatric services, expertise, and supplies in US hospitals for treating pediatric emergencies...
Trends in diabetes treatment patterns among primary care providersSandra L Decker
Division of Health Care Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
J Ambul Care Manage 32:333-41. 2009....
Are there patient disparities when electronic health records are adopted?Esther Hing
Ambulatory Hospital Care Statistics Branch, Division of Health Care Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 20:473-88. 2009..This finding reflects a mixture of high and low EHR adopters among PCPs for poor minority patients...
Terrorism preparedness: have office-based physicians been trained?Richard W Niska
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Fam Med 39:357-65. 2007..Terrorism may have a severe impact on physicians' practices. We examined terrorism preparedness training of office-based physicians...
Making patient-level estimates from medical encounter records using a multiplicity estimatorCatharine W Burt
Division of Health Care Statistics, CDC s National Center for Health Statistics, 3311 Toledo Road, 3rd Floor, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Stat Med 26:1762-74. 2007..This estimation technique may be useful in estimating patients with clinical characteristics that are difficult to collect from a population-based survey. Published in 2007 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd...
Which physicians and practices are using electronic medical records?Catharine W Burt
Division of Health Care Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 24:1334-43. 2005....
Trends in use of medications associated with women's ambulatory care visitsCatharine W Burt
Division of Health Care Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 12:213-7. 2003..Data from the CDC's National Health Care Survey (NHCS) can assist researchers studying women's healthcare utilization...
National trends in use of medications in office-based practice, 1985-1999Catharine W Burt
Ambulatory Care Statistics Branch, National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 21:206-14. 2002..The rate of multiple prescriptions per visit rose 39 percent. Similar-size increases were observed after differences in patients' age, number of comorbidities, source of payment, and physician specialty were controlled for...
Emergency health care encounters for adverse effects of medical treatmentC W Burt
Division of Health Care Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland, USA
Manag Care Interface 14:39-42. 2001..The rate of visits for adverse effects has increased from 3.1 visits per 1,000 persons in 1992 to 5.2 visits in 1999. Visit rates are substantially higher for persons aged 65 years and older...
Trend data on medical encounters: tracking a moving targetA B Bernstein
Development and Analysis Group, Division of Health Care Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 20:58-72. 2001..Policymakers and researchers who examine health care trends should be wary about judging whether the number of length of encounters is positive or negative without also examining the content of these encounters...
Poisoning-related visits to emergency departments in the United States, 1993-1996L F McCaig
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, USA
J Toxicol Clin Toxicol 37:817-26. 1999..In 1995, 2 million human poison exposures were reported to all poison centers in the US. Hospital emergency department data may be used to examine the most critical nonfatal poisoning exposures...
