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Outpatient Care Underused In Treatment of Teens with Pelvic Inflammatory Disease - 01/04/2011
Outpatient Care Underused In Treatment of Teens with Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Hospitalizing teen girls with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) costs six times as much as treating them in the emergency room, and up to 12 times more than treating them in an outpatient clinic, according to a small study conducted at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
For additional information:
http://www.hopkinschildrens.org/outpatient-care-underused-in-treatment-of-teens-with-PID.aspx