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Abstract/full free access: An evaluation of access to health care services along the rural-urban continuum in Canada

Conclusion

Inequities in access to care along the rural-urban continuum exist and can be masked when evaluation is done at a very large scale with gross indicators of rural-urban. Understanding the relationship between rural-urban and other determinants will help policy makers to target interventions appropriately: to specific demographic, provincial, community, or rural categories.

JAMA -- Abstract: Effect of Telecare Management on Pain and Depression in Patients With Cancer: A Randomized Trial, July 14, 2010

Conclusion
Centralized telecare management coupled with automated symptom monitoring resulted in improved pain and depression outcomes in cancer patients receiving care in geographically dispersed urban and rural oncology practices.