Association Between Usual Clinician Presence and Emergency Department Revisitation.

Abstract

Emergency department (ED) visit rates among older adults are increasing, often due to ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) that may have been managed through access to a usual clinician-a provider who offers regular outpatient care. We sought to characterize ACSC-related ED visits and all-cause 30-day ED revisits among ED visits of older adults with and without a usual clinician. We conducted a pooled cross-sectional analysis of 2015-2020 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) data l