Relative importance of variables in determination of practice location: A pilot study

The Changing Location of Physician Offices in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois: 1870–1988

“…The literature on geographical aspects of medicine in the United States and elsewhere has addressed health care delivery (Megee 1976;Shannon and Dever 1974;de Vise 1973, 9-40), certain diseases (Learnmouth 1988;Shannon and Pyle 1989), influences on distances patients traveled to hospitals (Mom11 et al 1970), intraurban access to primary medical care (Knox 1978), and applied medical geography (Pyle 1979). Other studies have concentrated on office or practice location (Bible 1970;Diseker and Chappell 1976;Rosenberg 1984), such as intrametropolitan siting of physician offices (Shumsky et al 1986). Papers on this last topic have often involved only one, usually large, city for a single year, probably because data have to be compiled manually (e.g., Gober and Gordon 1980).…”