Rural hospitals: a literature synthesis and health services research agenda.
- 1 February 1989
- journal article
- review article
- Vol. 23 (6) , 891-930
Abstract
The economic decline of rural America and an inability to respond to pressures created by the evolving American health care system are making it increasingly hard for rural hospitals to survive.This publication has 47 references indexed in Scilit:
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