Access to Primary Care for Patients with Diabetes at an Urban Public Hospital Walk-in Clinic
| Autor: | David Goldberg, David Ansell, Corinne Peterson, Stuart Dick, Robert L. Schiff |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Outpatient Clinics Hospital Medical Indigency Primary care Walk-in clinic Health Services Accessibility Hospitals Urban Ambulatory care Diabetes mellitus Health care Diabetes Mellitus medicine Humans Primary nursing Analysis of Variance Primary Health Care Hospitals Public business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Health Services Middle Aged medicine.disease Socioeconomic Factors Health Care Surveys Family medicine Public hospital Ambulatory Female Illinois business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 9:170-183 |
| ISSN: | 1548-6869 |
| Popis: | The purpose of this study was to determine the regular source of primary care, the content of care, and barriers to accessing primary care for 218 medically indigent adults with diabetes mellitus. Patients were surveyed at a public hospital walk-in clinic and were queried regarding demographics, regular source of care, and the content of care they received during the preceding year. Seventy percent of the patients were medically uninsured, and 60 percent had household incomes under $10,001. Forty-three percent reported no regular source of care, and 18 percent named an episodic care site as their regular source. Patients with a regular source of primary care had twice as many annual ambulatory visits as those without primary care. Patients with a regular source of primary care reported more diabetic-related services than those without. This patient population is largely poor and uninsured and has difficulty accessing primary care. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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