Smoking, Drug Abuse, Mental Illness Linked to Frequent ER Visits

Smokers, substance abusers, and patients with mental illness are three times much more likely to become regular emergency room users, meaning they see the ER three or more times annually, based on another study published in the journal Nursing Research. Also, within the overall public, all medical services have noticed a big upsurge in visits; this contains routine physician visits in addition to the ER. The key focus of the study was to ascertain whether visits are being replaced by patients with excursions to their primary care physicians to hospital ERs. They found that, overall, medical attention visits have grown drastically in the past couple of years and that both services are used by Americans with chronic diseases equally. There are a couple of super users that have been in the ER 40 or 50 times, but when we step back and examine the entire people, we see another pattern, said study leader Jessica Castner, Ph.D., R.N., a University at Buffalo emergency room use researcher and
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