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Abstract
Information Dissemination from the Primary Care Service Area ProjectTrack: Health and Human Services
Author(s): James F. Poage, Nancy J. Marth
Presenter: Nancy Marth
The goal of the Primary Care Service Area (PCSA) Project is to provide information about primary care resources and populations within small, standardized areas that reflect patient utilization patterns. An ArcSDE database stores the PCSA boundaries and attributes that are distributed through ArcIMS or directly to ArcGIS. The PCSA Project is the first of its kind to (1) define primary care service areas throughout the United States using standardized methods; (2) encompass actual patterns of primary care use between patients and providers derived from uniform nationwide Medicare claims data; and (3) provide access to a wide range of users, from the novice to the sophisticated, using GIS tools and the Internet.
James F. Poage
Dartmouth Medical School
7251 Strasenburgh Hall
Hanover, NH 03755-3863
USA
Phone: 603-650-1824
Fax: 603-650-1801
E-mail: james.f.poage@dartmouth.edu