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Study: Travel Time Is a Metric for Emergency Care Access
A study has found that patients with 1 of 5 acute surgical conditions who traveled longer distances to emergency departments were more likely to present with higher complexity of emergency general surgery disease. The retrospective study, published in JAMA Network Open, provides new evidence supporting travel time as an alternative metric to rurality for policies aiming to improve timely access to care.
A study has found that patients with 1 of 5 acute surgical conditions who traveled longer distances to emergency departments were more likely to present with higher complexity of emergency general surgery disease. The retrospective study, published in JAMA Network Open, provides new evidence supporting travel time as an alternative metric to rurality for policies aiming to improve timely access to care.
