Factors Associated with Pediatric Emergency Room Utilization in an Urban Community Hospital in Santiago, Dominican Republic | Zendy

Allison Lockwood | Zendy; Aparna Dandekar | Zendy; Margaret Arias | Zendy; Massiel Ovalles | Zendy; Suzanne Bentley | Zendy

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Factors Associated with Pediatric Emergency Room Utilization in an Urban Community Hospital in Santiago, Dominican Republic

Author(s) -

Allison Lockwood,

Aparna Dandekar,

Margaret Arias,

Massiel Ovalles,

Suzanne Bentley

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

annals of global health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.602

H-Index - 66

ISSN - 2214-9996

DOI - 10.5334/aogh.2327

Subject(s) - medicine , logistic regression , population , demography , odds , family medicine , emergency department , odds ratio , cross sectional study , pediatrics , environmental health , nursing , pathology , sociology

In low resource settings, maximizing effective use of emergency room (ER) services is imperative. This problem is anecdotally observed in the public hospital setting in Santiago, Dominican Republic (DR). There are no studies presently published examining ER use in this pediatric population or reasons caregivers choose to utilize the pediatric ER. Financial and systemic limitations have been previously cited as important contributors to the high pediatric mortality rate in the DR.

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