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The holidays are a busy time for pediatric emergency rooms. Doctors share the top reasons children end up in the hospital during the holiday season and tips to stay safe.
ER visits for unsupervised melatonin ingestion by infants and young children quadrupled from 2009 to 2020, the agency said. Supplements of the natural compound are commonly used as a sleep aid ...
The study, released Monday by Epic Research, found the number of caffeine-related ER visits for middle school-aged children nearly doubled from 2017 to 2023, rising from 3.1 per 100,000 visits in ...
Unnecessary health care (overutilization, overuse, or overtreatment) is health care provided with a higher volume or cost than is appropriate. [1] In the United States, where health care costs are the highest as a percentage of GDP, overuse was the predominant factor in its expense, accounting for about a third of its health care spending ($750 billion out of $2.6 trillion) in 2012.
The yearly rate of children’s emergency room visits due to battery-related injuries more than doubled in the last decade compared to the previous two, a study found.
Utilization management is "a set of techniques used by or on behalf of purchasers of health care benefits to manage health care costs by influencing patient care decision-making through case-by-case assessments of the appropriateness of care prior to its provision," as defined by the Institute of Medicine [1] Committee on Utilization Management by Third Parties (1989; IOM is now the National ...
The yearly rate of children’s battery-related emergency room visits more than doubled in the last decade compared to the previous two, a new study finds.
The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) was a public health surveillance system in the United States that monitored drug-related visits to hospital emergency departments and drug-related deaths. [1] DAWN was discontinued in 2011, [ 1 ] but its creator, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), continues to develop ...