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BMC Health Services Research BioMed Central Research article Open Access Access and care issues in urban urgent care clinic patients 3 1 1 1 2 David R Scott , Holly A Batal* , Sharon Majeres , Jill C Adams , Rita Dale and Philip S Mehler1 Address: 1Internal Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, 777 Bannock Street, Denver, CO 80204, USA, 2The Colorado Prevention Center, 789 Sherman Street, Suite 200, Denver, CO 80203, USA and 3Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97239-3098 OP-30, USA Email: David R Scott - ds_river@; Holly A Batal* - hbatal@; Sharon Majeres - majerestate@; Jill C Adams - jillcadams@; Rita Dale - rita.dale@; Philip S Mehler - Philip.Mehler@ * Corresponding author Published: 4 December 2009 Received: 5 May 2009 Accepted: 4 December 2009 BMC Health Services Research 2009, 9:222 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-9-222 This article is available from: /1472-6963/9/222 © 2009 Scott et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Although primary care should be the cornerstone of medical practice, inappropriate use of urgent care for non-urgent patients is a growing problem that has significant economic and h