Does community size or commute time affect severity of illness at diagnosis or quality of care in a centralized care model of pulmonary hypertension?

CONCLUSIONS: We found no association between community size or commute time with severity of illness at diagnosis, or markers of prognosis at follow up. This suggests that patients who reside in rural or remote environments are not experiencing deficiencies in care compared to urban patients.PMID:33746049 | DOI:10.1016/j.ijcard.2021.03.035

Source: Rural Remote Health - March 22, 2021 Category: Rural Health Authors: Nathan W Brunner Lena Legkaia Fayez Al-Ahmadi Lisa Lee Monica Norena Charmaine S M Lam Jeffrey J Yim Christina Luong Jason Weatherald Roland G Nador Robert D Levy John R Swiston Source Type: research