Delineating Hierarchical Hospital Service Areas in Florida

Geographical Review

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 608-623

  Jia, Peng ^a   Wang, Fahui ^b   Xierali, Imam M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES   (United States)

Author keywords

central place theory; distance decay function; Florida; hospital referral regions (HRRs); hospital service areas (HSAs); Huff Model; State Inpatient Database (SID)

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL PLACE THEORY; GIS; HEALTH SERVICES; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; HOSPITAL SECTOR; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84994559194     PISSN: 00167428     EISSN: 19310846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2016.12207.x     Document Type: Article

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