Puerto Rican Patients Travel to Puerto Rico: Assessing the Effect on Clinical Care

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 713-716

  Plant, Jennifer ^a   Keating III, Herbert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PUERTO RICO; STATISTICS; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DATA COLLECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PUERTO RICO; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0031266793     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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