Evaluation of Geographic Indices Describing Health Care Utilization
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Evaluation of Geographic Indices Describing Health Care Utilization
Objectives The accurate measurement of geographic patterns of health care utilization is a prerequisite for the study of geographic variations in health care utilization. While several measures have been developed to measure how accurately geographic units reflect the health care utilization patterns of residents, they have been only applied to hospitalization and need further evaluation. This ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1975-8375,2233-4521
DOI: 10.3961/jpmph.16.099