HCFO-funded research led by Ateev Mehrotra, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., was highlighted in Kaiser Health News. The article, "The Walmart Opportunity: Can Retailers Revamp Primary Care? [1]," features findings related to the experience of retail clinics from the grant's recent publication [2] in American Journal of Managed Care. Mehrotra and his colleagues found that, among a commercially insured study population, there was a dramatic increase in retail clinic utilization between 2007 and 2009.
Links:
[1] http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2011/November/17/Walmart-Opportunity-Can-Retailers-Revamp-Primary-Care.aspx
[2] http://www.hcfo.org/publications/trends-retail-clinic-use-among-commercially-insured
[3] http://www.hcfo.org/topics/access
[4] http://www.hcfo.org/topics/acute-care
[5] http://www.hcfo.org/topics/costs-and-cost-containment
[6] http://www.hcfo.org/topics/organization-and-supply-care