Mayer, Jonathan D.; Kohlenberg, Elizabeth R.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 24 (1987) 4, pp. 327-334
This is a case-control study of rural hospitals which closed between 1970 and 1980. Nonmetropolitan hospitals which closed were matched with a comparable set of hospitals which remained open, yielding 148 closures (cases) and 310 controls. Univariate and multivariate analyses indicate that...