PICO

  What are the most effective methods to educate adult patients in the United States about the appropriate use and indications to go to the emergency department (VS) other medical facilities (PCP, urgent care, sobering facilities, charitable community clinics etc.) to reduce the overuse of emergency department services for non-emergent cases and the main reasons patients visit the emergency department instead of other medical facilities. What can be done to properly educate? control? and reduce? emergency department visits for condition that are not emergencies.