Optimising spatial accessibility to inform rationalisation of specialist health services
Abstract Background In an era of budget constraints for healthcare services, strategies for provision of services that improve quality whilst saving costs are highly valued. A proposed means to achieve this is consolidation of services into fewer specialist centres, but this may lead to reduced spat...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-04-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Health Geographics |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12942-017-0088-6 |