Rural Surgery and Status of the Rural Workplace: Hospital Survival and Economics.
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Hospital closure
Rural
Surgery
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
Oct 2020
Historique:
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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
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doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
835-847Informations de copyright
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