The effect of distance to primary care physician on health care utilization and disease burden

Health Care Management Review

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 22-29

  Billi, John E ^a   Pai, Chih Wen ^b   Spahlinger, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease burden; Distance; Managed care; Utilization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MANAGED CARE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 33846440100     PISSN: 03616274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004010-200701000-00004     Document Type: Article

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