Clinical peripherality: Development of a peripherality index for rural health services

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Swan, Gillian M ^a   Selvaraj, Sivasubramaniam ^a   Godden, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; METHODOLOGY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RESIDENTIAL CARE; STATISTICS; TIME; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; DEMOGRAPHY; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FAMILY PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SCOTLAND; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 39549103078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-8-23     Document Type: Article

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