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Travel distance to the general practitioner. Do patients move closer to the services when starting to use them?<sup>1</sup>

2022-09-01

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<h4>Objectives</h4> The main objectives were 1) to calculate and describe travel time by car from the home of Norwegian residents to the office of their named general practitioner (GP); 2) to estimate changes in travel time for residents who started to visit the GP and, if so, to 3) to explore if the residents changed GP or moved to reduce their travel time. <h4>Methods</h4> We used nation-wide individual-level an...

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Literature Corpus work: e933ea89-88a9-537f-96c1-76fe37bb920c
DOI: 10.1101/2022.08.31.22279204

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