An analysis of the geographic distribution of acute-care hospitals and accessibility to care - based on the Japanese DPC database

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  • KB Ishikawa
  • S Matsuda
چکیده

Methods Hospital casemix data published by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (DPC [Diagnosis Procedure Combination] survey data) is used to construct a database of acute-care hospitals. Hospitals are then geo-coded, using their addresses, to calculate drive-times to a geographic mesh. The resulting hospital-to-mesh drive-time table is used to analyze accessibility to services in each region or prefecture.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • BMC Health Services Research

دوره 9  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009