Retail Clinics Changing the Face of Routine Medical Care

Retail medical clinics provide routine care of similar quality and at lower cost than that offered in doctors’ offices, urgent care centers or hospital emergency rooms, according to new RAND Corporation studies.Retail medical clinics are walk-up medical providers, typically located in drug stores and other retail chain stores such as Target and Wal-Mart rather than in medical facilities. Care most often is provided by nurse practitioners rather than by physicians.

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