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

ConclusionsThe 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.

Source: The Journal of Rural Health - February 12, 2018 Category: Rural Health Authors: Michael R. Daly, Jennifer M. Mellor, Marco Millones Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research