Are we there yet? Distance to care and relative supply among pediatric medical subspecialties

Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2313-2321

  Mayer, Michelle L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic access to care; Pediatric subspecialty care; Workforce analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA BASE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEWBORN CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPORTS MEDICINE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PEDIATRICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; PEDIATRICS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947187268     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-1570     Document Type: Article

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