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Rural patients' experiences accessing surgery in British Columbia.

Nancy Humber and Paul Dickinson

Can J Surg 53(6):373-8 (2010) PMID 21092429

More than 33% of Canadians live in rural areas. The vulnerability of rural surgical patients makes them particularly sensitive to barriers to accessing health care. This study aims to describe rural patients' experiences accessing local nonspecialist, family physician-surgeon care and regional specialist surgical care when no local surgical care was available.

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