Recruiting and Retaining Physicians in Small Rural Hospitals. Volume 1. Study Design, Methods and Findings

摘要

The study provides a review of the literature on physician recruitment strategies for rural hospitals. The survey is intended in part as a practical guide for rural hospital administrators. The report also includes a set of regression models indicating the number of physicians appropriate for a rural county according to selected socioeconomic and demographic variables. The report's final section consists of in-depth case studies of 18 rural hospitals, divided between half as successful in recruiting physicians and those unsuccessful.