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Purpose
This paper investigates patient outcomes including length of stay (LOS), cost of hospitalization, bounce‐back rates, transition to hospice care, and mortality, following back‐transfer.
Methods
This study was an observational case‐control study of adults hospitalized in Iowa between 2005 and 2013 to identify back‐transferred patients. Back‐transfer was defined as the transfer of rural patients...
BackgroundRural communities have disproportionately faced primary care shortages for decades in spite of policy efforts to prepare and attract primary care health professionals to practice in rural locales. Insight into how primary care physicians’ service patterns in rural areas differ from those in less rural places is important to better inform recruitment strategies that target primary care providers...
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