Is travel-time to a specialist centre a risk factor for non-referral, non-attendance and loss to follow-up among patients with hepatitis C (HCV) infection?

Thomas Astell-Burt, Robin Flowerdew, Paul Boyle and John Dillon

Social Science & Medicine, 2012, vol. 75, issue 1, 240-247

Abstract: Little is known about why many people diagnosed with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection fail to reach and stay within specialist care services. We used a Geographic Information System and logit regression to investigate whether travel-time to a specialist centre was associated with an increased likelihood of non-referral, non-attendance and loss to follow-up among persons diagnosed with HCV between 1991 and 2003 in Tayside, Scotland (UK). Information was available on referral to, and utilisation of, the single HCV specialist centre in Tayside between 1991 and 2006.

Keywords: UK, Scotland; Attendance; Hepatitis C Virus (HCV); Referral; Specialist centre; Travel-time; Geographic information systems (GIS) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.02.046

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