Managing indigent care: A case study of a safety-net emergency department

Health Services Research

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 361-376

  Dohan, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency department; Ethnographic methods; Graduate medical education; Indigent care; Net; Safety

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALS, COUNTY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; OBSERVATION; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; POVERTY; PROBLEM SOLVING; UNCOMPENSATED CARE;

EID: 0036551627     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.027     Document Type: Article

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