Defining Primary Care: Empirical Analysis of the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey

Medical Care

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 655-668

  Franks, Peter ^a,d   Clancy, Carolyn M ^b   Nutting, Paula ^c  

^a Highland Hospital Rochester   (United States)

^b AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d Family Medicine Center Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

Primary care; Primary care specialties

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COST CONTROL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MANPOWER; MEDICINE; ORGANIZATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGERY; UNITED STATES;

AMBULATORY CARE; COST CONTROL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE (U.S.); PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; SPECIALTIES, SURGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031183054     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199707000-00001     Document Type: Article

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