Health reform holds both risks and rewards for safety-net providers and racially and ethnically diverse patients

Health Affairs

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1830-1836

  Andrulis, Dennis P ^a,b   Siddiqui, Nadia J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b Texas Health Institute   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACT; ARTICLE; COMPETITION; ETHNICITY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; POPULATION; REWARD; RISK;

EID: 84856007553     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0661     Document Type: Article

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