Effect of distance to specialist care for the diagnosis and disease outcome of inflammatory bowel disease in the Swiss inflammatory bowel disease cohort study.

Lorenz GrobSena BlümelLuc BiedermannNicolas FournierJean-Benoit RosselStephan R VavrickaJonas ZeitzGerhard RoglerAndreas StallmachMichael Scharl

Published in: Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology (2020)

Patient-to-specialist distance might affect drug treatment. However, disease course and the need for IBD-related surgery does not seem to be associated with a longer distance to specialist care in Switzerland.

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