Factors influencing rural residents' utilization of urban hospitals

National Health Statistics Reports

Volumn , Issue 31, 2010, Pages

  Hall, Margaret Jean ^a   Marsteller, Jill ^a   Owings, Maria ^a  

^a Division of Health Care Statistics   (United States)

Author keywords

Hospital bypassing; Hospital choice; Inpatients; National Hospital Discharge Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047656622     PISSN: 21648344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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