Patients' view of retail clinics as a source of primary care: Boon for nurse practitioners?

Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 193-199

  Ahmed, Arif ^a   Fincham, Jack E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convenient care clinics; Discrete choice experiment; Nurse practitioners; Patient satisfaction; Primary care; Retail clinics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL FEE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PRACTITIONER; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT PREFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; COMMERCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEES, MEDICAL; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; PATIENT PREFERENCE;

EID: 79954497697     PISSN: 10412972     EISSN: 17457599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7599.2010.00577.x     Document Type: Article

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