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While a few studies have integrated geographically-informed components into their analyses such as urban vs. rural distinction of hospital, no studies of misuse of EDs for PCED conditions were identified that utilized geographic information systems (GIS) to understand the locations of residents who are prone to this misuse as well to understand the contributions of spatially-derived health care accessibility indexes toward this misuse. Therefore, to determine the contribution of both spatial and non-spatial variables to PCED utilization, a multilevel logit regression was fit to over 750,000 ED diagnoses from four academic hospitals in Chicago. This research found strong geographic clustering of PCED utilization in the Chicago study area. 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Previous studies have attempted to untangle the various contributing factors to such misuse, including sociodemographic, health, and insurance status variables. While a few studies have integrated geographically-informed components into their analyses such as urban vs. rural distinction of hospital, no studies of misuse of EDs for PCED conditions were identified that utilized geographic information systems (GIS) to understand the locations of residents who are prone to this misuse as well to understand the contributions of spatially-derived health care accessibility indexes toward this misuse. Therefore, to determine the contribution of both spatial and non-spatial variables to PCED utilization, a multilevel logit regression was fit to over 750,000 ED diagnoses from four academic hospitals in Chicago. This research found strong geographic clustering of PCED utilization in the Chicago study area. 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