Geographic disparities in the utilisation of computed tomography scanning services in southern New Zealand

Health Policy

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 222-228

  Nixon, Garry ^a   Samaranayaka, Ari ^a   de Graaf, Brandon ^a   McKechnie, Roslyne ^a   Blattner, Katharina ^a   Dovey, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Access to services; Imaging; Rural

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; NEW ZEALAND; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SECONDARY HEALTH CARE; AGED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

AGED; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 84922623466     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: 18726054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2014.05.002     Document Type: Article

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