Adults' lack of a usual source of care: A matter of preference?

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 359-365

  Viera, Anthony J ^a,b   Pathman, Donald E ^a,b   Garrett, Joanne M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Delivery of health care; Health services accessibility; Health services research; Personal health services; Usual source of care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33746912410     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: 15441717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.557     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Starfield B, Shi L. The medical home, access to care, and insurance: a review of evidence. Pediatrics. 2004;113:1493-1498.
2. He J, Muntner P, Chen J, et al. Factors associated with hypertension control in the general population of the United States. Arch Intern Med. 2002;162:1051-1058.
3. Bindman AB, Grumbach K, Osmond D, Vranizan K, Stewart AL. Primary care and receipt of preventive services. J Gen Intern Med. 1996;11:269-276.
4. DeVoe JE, Fryer GE, Phillips R, Green L. Receipt of preventive care among adults: insurance status and usual source of care. Am J Public Health. 2003;93:786-791.
5. Moy E, Bartman BA, Weir MR. Access to hypertensive care. Effects of income, insurance, and source of care. Arch Intern Med. 1995;155:1497-1502.
6. Pancholi M. Reasons for Lacking a Usual Source of Care: 2001 Estimates for the US Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Available at: http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/PrintProducts/ PrintProdLookup.asp?ProductType=StatisticalBrief. Accessed: 3 November 2005.
7. United States Department of Health and Human Services. Healthy People 2010. Conference ed. Washington, DC: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2000.
8. Hayward RA, Bernard AM, Freeman HE, Corey CR. Regular source of ambulatory care and access to health services. Am J Public Health. 1991;81:434-438.
9. Weinick RM, Drilea SK. Usual sources of health care and barriers to care, 1996. Stat Bull Metrop Insur Co. 1998;79:11-17.
10. Corbie-Smith G, Flagg EW, Doyle JP, O'Brien MA. Influence of usual source of care on differences by race/ethnicity in receipt of preventive services. J Gen Intern Med. 2002;17:458-464.
11. Schoen C, Lyons B, Rowland D, Davis K, Puleo E. Insurance matters for low-income adults: results from a five-state survey. Health Aff (Millwood). 1997;16:163-171.
12. Cohen J. Design and Methods of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component. Rockville, Md: Agency for Health Care Policy and Research; 1997.
13. Centers for Disease Control National Center for Health Statistics. NCHS Definitions. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/nchsdefs/ usualsourceofcare.htm. Accessed: 8 November 2005.
14. Andersen RM. Revisiting the behavioral model and access to medical care: does it matter? J Health Soc Behav. 1995;36:1-10.
15. Pathman DE, Agnew CR. Querying physicians' beliefs in career choice studies: the limitations of introspective causal reports. Fam Med. 1993;25:203-207.
16. Miller DT, Ross M. Self-serving biases in the attribution of causality: fact or fiction? Psychol Bull. 1975;82:213-225.