Access to neurosurgical care: a critical component of the manpower equation
| Autor: | Clark Watts, Willa Adelstein |
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| Rok vydání: | 1982 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
education.field_of_study business.industry Population Specialty Neurosurgery medicine.disease Health Services Accessibility United States Component (UML) Workforce medicine Surgery Neurology (clinical) Medical emergency Intensive care medicine business education Socioeconomic status |
| Zdroj: | Surgical neurology. 17(3) |
| ISSN: | 0090-3019 |
| Popis: | In discussions of physician manpower, “maldistribution” often is not defined except in terms of vague socioeconomic theories. A process for defining it in terms of patient access to physicians utilizing conditions sentinel to specialty practice is presented. While only 0.7% of the United States population does not have adequate access to a neurosurgeon, in some states as much as 30% of the population is not served. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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