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Emergency Care Avoidance and Delays in the United States: Scoping Review Protocol v1

Year: 2026

Type: preprint

Abstract: This is a protocol for a scoping review mapping the evidence on avoidance of and delays in seeking emergency care in the United States. Following Joanna Briggs Institute guidance with PRISMA-ScR reporting, we will search biomedical and health sciences databases and perform a focused grey literature search, covering the period since implementation of the major provisions of the Affordable Care Act in January 2014. We plan to synthesize factors associated with emergency care avoidance and delays, highlight populations that are disproportionately affected, characterize how avoidance and delay are defined and measured, and identify gaps and future directions in the literature.

DOI: 10.17504/protocols.io.kqdg3r397g25/v1

Authors: Elaine Hsiang, Esmeralda Melgoza, Jennifer Newberry

Institutions: Stanford Medicine, Stanford University

Language: English

Topic: Emergency and Acute Care Studies

Subfield: Emergency Medicine

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: School of Medicine, Stanford University

OpenAlex ID: W7224934971

Cites: 5

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