Emergency department and community health center visits and costs in an uninsured population

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 80-86

  Smith Campbell, Betty ^a,b  

^a Epsilon Gamma at Large ^*  (United States)

^b WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to health care; Community health centers; Cost analysis; Health policy; Hospital emergency services; Safety net capacity; Uninsured

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST CONTROL; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CENTER; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT; POPULATION GROWTH; POVERTY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; COST SAVINGS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; KANSAS; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; POPULATION GROWTH; POVERTY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 18244408036     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2005.00011.x     Document Type: Article

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