Defining Primary Care Shortage Areas: Do GIS-based Measures Yield Different Results?

Michael R DalyJennifer M MellorMarco Millones

Published in: The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association (2018)

The GIS-based PPRs we employed would yield shortage area determinations that are similar to those based on bounded-area PPRs defined for Primary Care Service Areas. Disagreement rates were lower than previous studies have found.

Keyphrases

primary care
healthcare
mental health
general practice
case control