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Rural and urban disparities in the care of Canadian patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a population-based study.

Abstract：

Background and aims:Canada's large geographic area and low population density pose challenges in access to specialized health care for remote and rural residents. We compared health services use, surgical rate, and specialist gastroenterologist care in rural and urban inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients in Canada. Methods:We used validated algorithms that were applied to population-based health administrative data to identify all people living with the following three Canadian provinces: Alberta, Manitoba, and Ontario (ON). We compared rural residents with urban residents for time to diagnosis, hospitalizations, outpatient visits, emergency department (ED) use, surgical rate, and gastroenterologist care. Multivariable regression compared the outcomes in rural/urban patients, controlling for confounders. Provincial results were meta-analyzed using random-effects models to produce overall estimates. Results:A total of 36,656 urban and 5,223 rural residents with incident IBD were included. Outpatient physician visit rate was similar in rural and urban patients. IBD-specific and IBD-related hospitalization rates were higher in rural patients (incidence rate ratio [IRR] 1.17, 95% CI 1.02-1.34, and IRR 1.27, 95% CI 1.04-1.56, respectively). The rate of ED visits in ON were similarly elevated for rural patients (IRR 1.53, 95% CI 1.42-1.65, and IRR 1.33, 95% CI 1.25-1.40). There were no differences in surgical rates or prediagnosis lag time between rural and urban patients. Rural patients had fewer IBD-specific gastroenterologist visits (IRR 0.79, 95% CI 0.73-0.84) and a smaller proportion of their IBD-specific care was provided by gastroenterologists (28.3% vs 55.2%, P<0.0001). This was less pronounced in children <10 years at diagnosis (59.3% vs 65.0%, P<0.0001), and the gap was widest in patients >65 years (33.0% vs 59.2%, P<0.0001). Conclusion:There were lower rates of gastroenterologist physician visits, more hospitalizations, and greater rates of ED visits in rural IBD patients. These disparities in health services use result in costlier care for rural patients. Innovative methods of delivering gastroenterology care to rural IBD patients (such as telehealth, online support, and remote clinics) should be explored, especially for communities lacking easy access to gastroenterologists.

journal_name

Clin Epidemiol

journal_title

Clinical epidemiology

authors

Benchimol EI,Kuenzig ME,Bernstein CN,Nguyen GC,Guttmann A,Jones JL,Potter BK,Targownik LE,Catley CA,Nugent ZJ,Tanyingoh D,Mojaverian N,Underwood FE,Siddiq S,Otley AR,Bitton A,Carroll MW,deBruyn JC,Dummer TJ,El-Matar

doi

10.2147/CLEP.S178056

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-11-08 00:00:00

pages

1613-1626

issn

1179-1349

pii

clep-10-1613

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Rural and urban disparities in the care of Canadian patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a population-based study.