Danagoulian, Shooshan; Grossman, Daniel; Slusky, David - 2020
Emergency department visits are costly to providers and to patients. We use the Flint water crisis to test if an … increase in office visits reduced avoidable emergency room visits. In September 2015, the city of Flint issued a lead advisory …-care-treatable emergency room visits per 1000 eligible children (8.2%). This decrease is present in shifts from emergency room visits to office …