Wisconsin Medicaid enrollees' recurrent use of emergency departments and physicians' offices for treatment of nontraumatic dental conditions

Journal of the American Dental Association

Volumn 142, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 540-550

  Okunseri, Christopher ^a   Pajewski, Nicholas M ^b   Jackson, Scott ^c   Szabo, Aniko ^d  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency department; Medicaid; Nontraumatic dental conditions; Physicians' offices

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958154699     PISSN: 00028177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14219/jada.archive.2011.0224     Document Type: Article

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