| Repeat 'super users" are swamping the ER in Camden |
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| Sunday, 13 July 2008 | |
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BY CAROL ANN CAMPBELL Researchers studying the crisis of America's overcrowded emer gency rooms are beginning to focus on this largely undocumented phenomenon, the super users who turn to hospital emergency rooms dozens, even hundreds, of times. Researchers say a seemingly intractable problem could be solved, in large part, by focusing on just the top 1 percent of emergency room users, who in Camden alone cost $46 million over five years. A small city and the nation's poorest, Camden is shaping up as a laboratory to study ways to fix this costly national problem. The figure behind the effort is Jeffrey Brenner, a family doctor moti vated to reduce costs, but also to improve health care for some of the city's most difficult to treat patients. READ MORE: http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-13/1215923714298560.xml&coll=1
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