Rural Surgery: Framing the Issues

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1279-1284

  Doty, Brit ^a   Zuckerman, Randall ^a,b  

^a Mithoefer Center for Rural Surgery   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF SAINT RAPHAEL   (United States)

Author keywords

Rural surgery; Surgical education; Surgical quality; Surgical workforce

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; UNITED STATES;

DEMOGRAPHY; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70450253603     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2009.09.010     Document Type: Review

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