Investigating impacts of positional error on potential health care accessibility

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-29

  Bell, Scott ^a   Wilson, Kathi ^b   Shah, Tayyab Ikram ^a   Gersher, Sarina ^a   Elliott, Tina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Geocoding; GIS; Health care accessibility; Positional error

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DESKTOP MAPPING TECHNOLOGIES INC; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL ERROR; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CANADA; DATA COLLECTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 84859218376     PISSN: 18775845     EISSN: 18775853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sste.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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