The many "costs" of transportation: Examining what cancer caregivers experience as transportation obstacles.
Maria D ThomsonCourtney Harold Van HoutvenRebecca XuLaura A SiminoffPublished in: Cancer medicine (2023)
Caregivers described the multifaceted costs of transportation they experienced which are in line with previous work. Alongside descriptions of direct costs, caregivers described key opportunity costs, such as personal and work time forgone to transporting patients. Caregivers also made suggestions for institutional and/or civic based solutions to facilitate reliable modes of transportation, rather than individual-level intervention.