Thomas C. Ricketts

Best Publications

• Defining Urban and Rural Areas in U.S. Epidemiologic Studies

  Susan A. Hall;Jay S. Kaufman;Thomas C. Ricketts

  505
  Citations

• Access in health services research: The battle of the frameworks

  Thomas C. Ricketts;Laurie J. Goldsmith

  401
  Citations

• The Effects of Having a Regular Doctor on Access to Primary Care

  Jeanne M. Lambrew;Gordon H. Defriese;Timothy S. Carey;Thomas C. Ricketts

  388
  Citations

• The Changing Nature of Rural Health Care

  Thomas C. Ricketts

  365
  Citations

• Rural health in the United States

  Thomas C. Ricketts

  315
  Citations

• Hospitalization rates as indicators of access to primary care.

  Thomas C Ricketts;Randy Randolph;Hilda Ann Howard;Donald E Pathman

  268
  Citations

• The comparative retention of National Health Service Corps and other rural physicians. Results of a 9-year follow-up study.

  Donald E. Pathman;Thomas R. Konrad;Thomas C. Ricketts

  208
  Citations

• Geographic information systems and public health.

  Thomas C. Ricketts

  204
  Citations

• Alliances in health care: what we know, what we think we know, and what we should know.

  Howard S. Zuckerman;Arnold D. Kaluzny;Thomas C. Ricketts

  195
  Citations

• Cancer in Rural Versus Urban Populations: A Review

  Adele C. Monroe;Thomas C. Ricketts;Lucy A. Savitz

  194
  Citations

• Poverty, Health Services, and Health Status in Rural America

  Donald L. Patrick;Jane Stein;Miquel Porta;Carol Q. Porter

  135
  Citations

• Geographic Methods for Health Services Research: A Focus on the Rural-Urban Continuum

  Lucy A. Savitz;Wilbert M. Gesler;Thomas C. Ricketts

  133
  Citations

• Understanding Biased Selection in Medicare HMOs

  Michelle M. Mello;Sally C. Stearns;Edward C. Norton;Thomas C. Ricketts

  126
  Citations

• The global health workforce shortage: role of surgeons and other providers.

  George F. Sheldon;Thomas C Ricketts;Anthony G Charles;Jennifer King

  124
  Citations

• Workforce issues in rural areas: a focus on policy equity.

  Thomas C. Ricketts

  121
  Citations

• Comparison of Number and Geographic Distribution of Pediatric Subspecialists and Patient Proximity to Specialized Care in the US Between 2003 and 2019.

  Adam Turner;Thomas Ricketts;Laurel K Leslie

  120
  Citations

• Clinical trial enrollment of rural patients with cancer.

  Electra D. Paskett;M. Robert Cooper;Nancy Stark;Thomas C. Ricketts

  119
  Citations

• How adults' access to outpatient physician services relates to the local supply of primary care physicians in the rural southeast.

  Donald E. Pathman;Thomas C. Ricketts;Thomas R. Konrad

  114
  Citations

• The role of physician recommendation in women's mammography use: is it a 2-stage process?

  Sarah Tropman Hawley;Jo Anne Earp;Michael O'Malley;Thomas C. Ricketts

  104
  Citations

• The National Health Service Corps Experience for Rural Physicians in the Late 1980s

  Donald E. Pathman;Thomas R. Konrad;Thomas C. Ricketts

  101
  Citations