Harnessing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to Enable Community-Oriented Primary Care
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Harnessing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to enable community-oriented primary care.
BACKGROUND Despite growing acceptance and implementation of geographic information systems (GIS) in the public health arena, its utility for clinical population management and coordination by leaders in a primary care clinical health setting has been neither fully realized nor evaluated. METHODS In a primary care network of clinics charged with caring for vulnerable urban communities, we used...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1557-2625,1558-7118
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2010.01.090097