Geographic variation in spatial accessibility of U.S. healthcare providers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Growing physician maldistribution and population demographic shifts have contributed to large geographic variation in healthcare access and the emergence of advanced practice providers as contributors to the healthcare workforce. Current estimates of geographic accessibility of physicians and advanced practice providers rely on outdated "provider per capita" estimates that have shortcomings.

Purpose

To apply state of the art methods to estimate spatial accessibility of physician and non-physician clinician groups and to examine factors associated with higher accessibility.

Methods

We used a combination of provider location, medical claims, and U.S. Census data to perform a national study of health provider accessibility. The National Plan and Provider Enume

SUBMITTER: Naylor KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6456202 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature