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• 1 in 11 people admitted to hospital have high or very high travel burden.
• 1 in 4 hospitalizations for people living in rural/remote areas have high or very high travel burden.
• The proportion of hospital patients with high and very high travel burden varies by as much as 14 times across Canada’s provinces and territories.
• Travel burden increases with level of specialization of the care received.
• Patients receiving obstetric and gynecology care have the smallest proportion of high or very high travel burden.

• Rural ºìÁì½í¹Ï±¨ Systems Model
• Rural ºìÁì½í¹Ï±¨ Service Decision Guide
• Rural health care in Canada
• Introduction to CMG+ Aggregation Variables (PDF)

ºìÁì½í¹Ï±¨wishes to acknowledge and thank members of our Sparsely Populated Regions Advisory Group who expressed an interest in understanding travel burden as it relates to the rural/remote populations they serve. This group and ºìÁì½í¹Ï±¨care Excellence Canada’s Canadian Northern and Remote ºìÁì½í¹Ï±¨ Network provided feedback and guidance as this work took shape. We gratefully acknowledge these groups and the many others who were consulted throughout the development of this work.

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