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Weekly JAMA Feature for April 13
UNINSURED AND UNDERINSURED MORE LIKELY TO DELAY SEEKING EMERGENCY CARE FOR A HEART ATTACK
JAMA RADIO REPORT
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
This week’s package has an embargo: 4pm(ET) Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Radio script (TRT 1:00)
April 13, 2010
VO: MINUTES COUNT WHEN SOMEONE IS HAVING A HEART ATTACK. GETTING TO A HOSPITAL AND RECEIVING EMERGENCY CARE MAY BE CRUCIAL TO SURVIVAL. A NEW STUDY SHOWS MANY PEOPLE WHO DON’T HAVE MEDICAL INSURANCE OR WHO FEEL THEY CAN’T AFFORD TO USE THEIR INSURANCE OFTEN DELAY SEEKING THAT EMERGENCY TREATMENT. RUNS :15
“Patients who were uninsured or who felt underinsured, that is with concerns about their finances despite having health care insurance had delays often time exceeding six hours from initiation of symptoms such as chest pain before coming for a heart attack.”
VO: DR. PAUL CHAN FROM THE MID AMERICA HEART INSTITUTE IN KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI AND CO-AUTHORS COLLECTED DATA ON MORE THAN 3700 HEART ATTACK PATIENTS AT 24 U-S HOSPITALS FROM APRIL 2005 THROUGH DECEMBER 2008.
THE STUDY APPEARS IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
“Health care insurance plays a huge role as to whether or not patients are willing to come in soon or may have delays in coming to the hospital when they have a medical emergency.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.
Radio script (TRT 1:00)
April 13, 2010
VO: MINUTES COUNT WHEN SOMEONE IS HAVING A HEART ATTACK. GETTING TO A HOSPITAL AND RECEIVING EMERGENCY CARE MAY BE CRUCIAL TO SURVIVAL. A NEW STUDY SHOWS MANY PEOPLE WHO DON’T HAVE MEDICAL INSURANCE OR WHO FEEL THEY CAN’T AFFORD TO USE THEIR INSURANCE OFTEN DELAY SEEKING THAT EMERGENCY TREATMENT. RUNS :15
“Patients who were uninsured or who felt underinsured, that is with concerns about their finances despite having health care insurance had delays often time exceeding six hours from initiation of symptoms such as chest pain before coming for a heart attack.”
VO: DR. PAUL CHAN FROM THE MID AMERICA HEART INSTITUTE IN KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI AND CO-AUTHORS COLLECTED DATA ON MORE THAN 3700 HEART ATTACK PATIENTS AT 24 U-S HOSPITALS FROM APRIL 2005 THROUGH DECEMBER 2008.
THE STUDY APPEARS IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
“Health care insurance plays a huge role as to whether or not patients are willing to come in soon or may have delays in coming to the hospital when they have a medical emergency.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.