Reductions In Hospitalizations Among Children Referred To A Primary Care–Based Medical-Legal Partnership

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Written By NCMLP

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A study conducted in Greater Cincinnati, Ohio, between 2012 and 2017 examined the effect of referral to a medical-legal partnership on hospitalization rates among urban, low-income children. Researchers compared 2,203 children referred to a pediatric primary care–based medical-legal partnership with 100 randomly selected control cohorts drawn from 34,235 children seen concurrently but not referred. They found that the median predicted hospitalization rate for children in the year after referral was 37.9 percent lower if children received the legal intervention than if they did not. The research was published in Health Affairs.

 

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Authors

  • Andrew F. Beck

  • Adrienne W. Henize

  • TingTing Qiu

  • Bin Huang

  • Yin Zhang

  • Melissa D. Klein

  • Donita Parrish

  • Elaine E. Fink

  • Robert S. Kahn

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