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Limited Movement Means Vanishing Visits: How Patient Mobility and Signal Coarseness Reordered Healthcare Traffic in the Wake of COVID-19

2022-05-20

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Background: Traffic represents a key operational input, especially in healthcare. Though serious consequences follow delayed or omitted care, with the emergence of COVID-19 in 2020, traffic to many healthcare clinics fell dramatically overnight.<br><br>Aim: Other literature has shown stay-at-home orders cannot fully explain the drops in clinic traffic. Using aggregate measures of patient mobility, we seek to chara...

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Literature Corpus work: 77109ae2-e4de-5569-8da5-3b3c1363e6d1
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4104596

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