Rationing access to care to the medically uninsured the role of bureaucratic front-line discretion at large healthcare institutions

Medical Care

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 306-312

  Weiner, Saul J ^a,d   Laporte, Margaret ^a   Abrams, Richard I ^b   Moswin, Arthur ^c   Warnecke, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MICHAEL REESE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d M/C 718 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Access to care; Administrative; Vulnerable populations

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ASSISTANT; MIDDLE AGED; NON PROFIT HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; POLICY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HOSPITALS, VOLUNTARY; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL INDIGENCY; MEDICAL SECRETARIES; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; OWNERSHIP; PATIENT ADMISSION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 2142652258     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlr.0000118706.49341.49     Document Type: Article

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