Americans seek a large amount of nonemergency care in emergency departments, where
they often encounter long waits to be seen. Urgent care centers and retail clinics have …

Retail clinics have the potential to reduce health spending by offering convenient, low-cost
access to basic health care services. Retail clinics are often staffed by nurse practitioners …

Retail clinics have rapidly become a fixture of the US health care delivery landscape. We
studied visits to retail clinics and found that they increased fourfold from 2007 to 2009, with …

Background: Retail clinics are clinics within a retail store that provide simple acute and
preventive care services for a fixed price without an appointment. Objective: To describe …

Objectives Evaluation of quality of care across retail clinics in a geographically diverse
population has not been undertaken to date. We sought to evaluate and compare the quality …

Purpose: As a rapidly growing new health care delivery model in the United States, retail
clinics have been the subject of much debate and controversy. Located physically within a …

Virtual medicine is growing in importance as the cost of medical care rises and the potential
for Internet applications expands. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of e …

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare continuity of care for family medicine
patients using retail medicine clinics to continuity for patients not using retail clinics. Retail …

Controlling the overall cost of medical care requires controlling the number of physician
visits. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants (NPs/PAs) may function as lower-cost …

Retail clinic versus office setting: do patients choose appropriate providers? - Abstract - Europe
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