Importance Enrolling racially and ethnically diverse pediatric research participants is critical
to ensuring equitable access to health advances and generalizability of research findings …

Background Cardiac, pulmonary, and intensive care unit (ICU) rehabilitation/recovery
programs are health promotion interventions designed to improve physical recovery …

Importance Hospitals with emergency surgical services provide essential care for a wide
range of time-sensitive diseases. Commonly used measures of spatial access, such as …

Though stillbirth rates in the United States improved over the previous decades, inequities in
stillbirth by race and ethnicity have persisted nearly unchanged since data collection began …

Objective: We sought to define the impact of community privilege on variations in travel
patterns and access to care at high-volume hospitals for complex surgical procedures …

Abstract Rural, American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) people, a population at elevated risk
for complex pregnancies, have limited access to risk-appropriate obstetric care. Obstetrical …

Introduction Nonmetropolitan populations face frequent health care access barriers
compared to their metropolitan counterparts, but differences in the number of these barriers …

Although rural communities have been hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is limited
evidence on COVID-19 outcomes in rural America using up-to-date data. This study aimed …

Importance Anticholinergic medications to treat overactive bladder (OAB) have been
associated with increased risk of cognitive decline, whereas β3-adrenoceptor agonists …

A key issue facing the United States is how to structure rural health care delivery. In research
and policy discussions of this challenge, a core focus has been the appropriate role for rural …