%0 Journal Article %T Variation in access to pediatric surgical care among coexisting public and private providers: inguinal hernia as a model %A Abdulrahman Alzahem %A Ayman Al-Jazaeri %A Lama Alshwairikh %A Manar A. Aljebreen %A Nourah AlSwaidan %A Tarfah Al-Obaidan %J Archive of "Annals of Saudi Medicine". %D 2017 %R 10.5144/0256-4947.2017.290 %X Faced with growing healthcare demand, the Saudi government is increasingly relying on privatization as a tool to improve patient access to care. Variation in childrenĄ¯s access to surgical care between public (PB) and private providers (PV) has not been previously analyzed %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6150598/