Access and care issues in urban urgent care clinic patients

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Scott, David R ^c   Batal, Holly A ^a   Majeres, Sharon ^a   Adams, Jill C ^a   Dale, Rita ^b   Mehler, Philip S ^a  

^a DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Colorado Prevention Center ^*  (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 73449121469     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-9-222     Document Type: Article

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