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Worth the trip? The effect of hospital clinic closures for patients undergoing scheduled surgery

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Recent decades' hospital closures and consolidations have been rationalized with reference to arguments of efficiency and quality returns to scale and scope. However, closures are met with public outcry from patients living in areas affected by such closures if accompanying increases in travel time are not offset by a higher quality of care. It is broadly established that increases in patients’ travel time to acute care lower the probability of survival, but in non-acute and scheduled care we lack knowledge about the quality of care that patients living in closure-affected areas receive.

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  • Kollerup, Anna, 2022. "Worth the trip? The effect of hospital clinic closures for patients undergoing scheduled surgery," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 314(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:314:y:2022:i:c:s0277953622007900
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115484
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