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Perspectives on the Provision of Urgent Care Services by Family Physicians
William A. Norcross, MD
Arch Fam Med. 1993;2(6):589.
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NLESS SOMETHING IS done to curb our expenditures for health care, the US economy will be bankrupt sometime in the early 21st century. Efforts are under way by the Clinton administration to develop plans to control the upward spiral of health care costs while simultaneously offering the benefits of high-quality health care to all Americans, a daunting task to say the least. The article by Warren and Isikoff1 in the May issue of the ARCHIVES carefully examined one of the ways in which health care costs might be effectively controlled without compromising quality of care. Their research shows that for a group of commonly encountered primary care diagnoses, the cost of care in an emergency department is much higher than that in urgent care or other similar clinical sites. This holds true even when controlling for severity of illness.
The differences are not meager; the charge for care in
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Author Affiliations
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine La Jolla
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