Does providing uninsured adults with free or low-cost primary care influence their use of hospital emergency departments?

Journal of Health and Human Services Administration

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 240-258

  Zahradnik, Anne G ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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