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New life sciences research from E. Grossman and colleagues discussed
September 24th, 2008
"Amidst recent policy discussions about the health care safety net there has been relatively little information about whether the actual site of care affects care quality. We therefore used National Health Interview Survey data to describe low-income adults seeking primary care at different types of sites and the quality of access and preventive care at these sites," scientists in the United States report. "After adjusting for sociodemographic characteristics and illness burden, hospital-out-Patient-department patients were more likely to receive vaccinations for influenza (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] 1.3, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.0-1.6) and pneumococcus (AOR 1.4,...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-09-24)
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