Use of Fine-scale Geospatial Units and Population Data to Evaluate Access to Emergency Care

Introduction: Time to facility is a crucial element in emergency medicine (EM). Fine-scale geospatial units such as census block groups (CBG) and publicly available population datasets offer a low-cost and accurate approach to modeling geographic access to and utilization of emergency departments (E...

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Main Authors: Katherine M. Joyce, Ryan C. Burke, Thomas J. Veldman, Michelle M. Beeson, Erin L. Simon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2018-10-01
Series:Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
Online Access:https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7gg5n438