Rural Surgery and Status of the Rural Workplace: Hospital Survival and Economics.


Journal

The Surgical clinics of North America
ISSN: 1558-3171
Titre abrégé: Surg Clin North Am
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0074243

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Oct 2020
Historique:
entrez: 4 9 2020
pubmed: 4 9 2020
medline: 18 9 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Nearly 60 million people live in a rural area across the United States. Since 2005, 162 rural hospitals have closed, and the rate of rural hospital closures seems to be accelerating. Major drivers of rural hospital closures are poor financial health, aging facilities, and low occupancy rates. Rural hospitals are particularly vulnerable to policy and market changes, and even small changes can have a disproportionate effect on rural hospital financial viability. Surgery can be safely performed in rural hospitals; however, hospital closures may be putting the rural population at increased risk of morbidity and mortality from surgical disease.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32882166
pii: S0039-6109(20)30054-2
doi: 10.1016/j.suc.2020.05.009
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Review

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

835-847

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Auteurs

Adrian Diaz (A)

National Clinician Scholars Program at the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, University of Michigan, 2800 Plymouth Road, North Campus Research Complex, Building 14 Suite G-100, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy, University of Michigan, 2800 Plymouth Road, North Campus Research Complex, Building 16, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Division of Surgical Oncology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and James Comprehensive Cancer Center, 395 West 12th Avenue, Suite 670, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.

Timothy M Pawlik (TM)

Division of Surgical Oncology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and James Comprehensive Cancer Center, 395 West 12th Avenue, Suite 670, Columbus, OH 43210, USA. Electronic address: tim.pawlik@osumc.edu.

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