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Avoidable visits to emergency departments are among the major factors contributing to rising healthcare costs, and of the roughly 27 million annual ED visits by privately insured patients, about two ...

Most emergency department (ED) visits may not be as preventable as once thought. A new study in the International Journal for Quality in Health Care pointed out that while some estimates of "avoidable ...

Each year, many ER visits in South Africa are for mood-related disorders, such as depression and anxiety. This is an alarming result of the lack of primary mental health care in SA. A new study shows ...

In most high-income countries around the world, the number of avoidable mortalities is going down. But in the United States, avoidable deaths have been on the rise for more than a decade, according to ...

Avoidable deaths in Great Britain were 22.8% (153,008 deaths out of 672,015) of total deaths across all ages in 2020, which is the highest figure since 2010, show figures from the Office for National ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — When a person dies, clinicians often look at the cause of death to determine whether it could have been avoided, either by medical prevention such as vaccines or ...