Still, the results suggest that clinicians should ask patients about their financial stress from health care bills and consider this when advising patients to seek care, said Dr. Alexander Sandhu, an instructor in cardiovascular medicine at Stanford University in California and coauthor of an editorial accompanying the study.
“If clinically appropriate, clinicians should also inform these patients of less costly options for care than the ED, such as doctors’ offices and urgent care facilities,” Dr. Sandhu said by email. “To help patients make these decisions, clinicians need more ready access to information on how much care will cost, which is currently challenging to determine in advance.”
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