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Assessing the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of resource allocation effects on patient flow in shanxi’s County hospitals, China [PDF]
Scientific ReportsChina’s healthcare system faces significant challenges in resource distribution, with urban tertiary hospitals receiving disproportionate allocations. This imbalance has led to a substantial bypassing of county-level hospitals by rural patients seeking ...
Jing Liu, Boyu Li, Tao Zhang
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Comparing Guillain-Barré syndrome outcomes between rural and urban hospitals in the United States: A retrospective cohort study. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBackground and purposeRural-urban disparities in neurological care have been well documented, but limited data exist regarding Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS).
Anudeep Surendranath +3 more
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Hospital birth volume and rurality: Associations with pregnancy outcomes among individuals with chronic hypertension [PDF]
PregnancyIntroduction Chronic hypertension in pregnancy has doubled in prevalence over the past 15 years, but little is known about pregnancy outcomes at hospitals with different characteristics.
Stephanie A. Leonard +8 more
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Spatial Vertical Equity in Public General Hospitals: Towards a Sustainable Healthcare System
Land, 2023 The accessibility of public general hospitals is essential for the well-being of urban residents and for more equitable urban planning. However, public general hospitals and the associated spatial vertical equity are still not well known in developing ...
Peiheng Yu +5 more
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Rural versus urban academic hospital mortality following stroke in Canada. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Stroke is one of the leading causes of death in Canada. While stroke care has improved dramatically over the last decade, outcomes following stroke among patients treated in rural hospitals have not yet been reported in Canada.To describe variation in 30-
Richard Fleet +8 more
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Trends and Patterns of Antibiotics Use in China’s Urban Tertiary Hospitals, 2016–19
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 Objectives: This study aimed to identify the trends in antibiotics utilization and patients costs, evaluating the effect of the policy and exploring factors associated with the irrational use of antibiotics.Methods: Based on the Cooperation Project ...
Yulei Zhu +7 more
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Revista Produção e Desenvolvimento, 2022 Purpose: to evaluate the potential accessibility to public hospitals between 2019 and 2021. Methodology/Approach: comparative analysis of travel times by public transport, calculated using the r5r package in R with the GTFS provided by the municipality ...
Lucila Martinazzo, Claudio Falavigna
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Data & Policy, 2023 The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the mobility restrictions governments imposed to prevent its spread changed the cities’ ways of living.
Lucila Martinazzo
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BMJ Open, 2021 Objective To compare the processes and outcomes of care in patients who had a stroke treated in urban versus rural hospitals in Australia.Design Observational study using data from a multicentre national registry.Setting Data from 50 acute care hospitals
Joosup Kim +13 more
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Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2022 OBJECTIVES/GOALS: An increasing number of hospitals and provider groups are consolidating into larger health systems, which hold potential to improve access to and quality of surgical cancer care through clinical integration across sites.
Kristy K. Broman +3 more
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