… care locations, to address the concern that confounding could explain differences observed
among the care … of episodes at retail clinics and that of other care settings, we believe this …

… of services with prices). In addition, most retail clinics are located in retail settings that include
… The main focus of the analysis was to compare costs per episode across the sites of care. …

… articles empirically examined care in a retail clinic setting and its effect on costs of care, …
literature supports retail clinics serving as lower cost care options for basic primary care services …

… Also, our goal was to compare the care at retail clinics with that of other care sites, and retail
clinics do not manage undifferentiated abdominal pain. Consistent with our previous work (3)…

… that retail clinics deliver care at substantially lower cost than … equivalent in quality to what
is available in other settings.… We sought to evaluate and compare the quality of care for …

… clinics and more technical quality problems for patients in office-… -cost community health
centers had the best or second best scores for most of the 21 comparisons of type of quality …

… health care delivery system, we describe the geographic distribution of retail clinics and their
scope of services, prices, … outside a retail store but within a retail setting, such as a shopping …

… (2) What are the reasons patients visit retail clinics as compared … evaluations of the quality
and costs of care in retail clinics. … relieve some of the demand on both of these care settings. …

… Indeed, a recent study that compared the care received at … at other care settings found no
adverse effect on quality of care. … retail clinics, have expressed concern with the quality of care …

… The complication rates prior to the closure of the AC were published previously. Although …
historical comparison, this report focuses on the 2 subsequent periods of UMC and AC care. …