Access Fragility

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Highlighted claims

• The study calculated the travel component of fragility as the difference between travel time to the nearest five physicians and travel time to the nearest physician. — Going the distance: a cross-sectional geospatial analysis quantifying province-wide inequities in travel-based access, and fragility of access to French-language primary care provided by family physicians in Ontario, Canada
• French-language primary care access was more fragile than general or English-language access across Ontario and all examined groupings. — Going the distance: a cross-sectional geospatial analysis quantifying province-wide inequities in travel-based access, and fragility of access to French-language primary care provided by family physicians in Ontario, Canada
• Access fragility is defined as the extent to which access in a region depends on one or a few nearby physicians. — Going the distance: a cross-sectional geospatial analysis quantifying province-wide inequities in travel-based access, and fragility of access to French-language primary care provided by family physicians in Ontario, Canada
• The median difference in French-language versus English-language access fragility was 5.2 minutes. — Going the distance: a cross-sectional geospatial analysis quantifying province-wide inequities in travel-based access, and fragility of access to French-language primary care provided by family physicians in Ontario, Canada
• The study treated fragility as broader than travel time but focused only on its travel-burden component. — Going the distance: a cross-sectional geospatial analysis quantifying province-wide inequities in travel-based access, and fragility of access to French-language primary care provided by family physicians in Ontario, Canada