Decomposing Urban and Rural Disparities of Preventable ED Visits Among Patients With Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: Evidence of the Availability of Health Care Resources.
Nianyang WangAsmaa AlbaroudiJie ChenPublished in: The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association (2020)
Our study demonstrates the importance of improving health care resources in rural areas to improve health care quality and outcomes among ADRD patients who reside in rural areas. Future research and data collection on unobserved factors, such as health care quality, will be helpful in explaining the geographic differences.