Objective: We sought to define the impact of community privilege on variations in travel
patterns and access to care at high-volume hospitals for complex surgical procedures …

Methods The California Office of Statewide Health Planning database was used to identify
patients who underwent pancreatectomy (PD), esophagectomy (ES), proctectomy (PR), or …

Introduction Regionalization of complex surgical procedures may improve healthcare
quality. We sought to define the impact of regionalization on access to high-volume hospitals …

Objective: To evaluate if receipt of complex cancer surgery at high-quality hospitals is
associated with a reduction in disparities between individuals living in the most and least …

Importance Directing patients to safer hospitals for complex cancer surgery (regionalization)
may prevent thousands of mortalities in the United States. Objective To understand the …

Objectives Among considerable efforts to improve quality of surgical care, expedited
measures such as a selective referral to high-volume institutions have been advocated. Our …

Objective: To describe public willingness to participate in regionalized surgical care for
cancer. Summary of Background Data: Improved outcomes at high-volume centers following …

Some hospitals are better and some are worse—this we know is true. But, how do we know?
The goal of accurately discerning which hospitals are high performers is undertaken by a …

Background Structural factors limiting access to surgical care require elucidation. We
hypothesize transportation time to hospitals with surgical capacity disproportionately …

Background We sought to determine the impact of historical redlining on travel patterns and
utilization of high-volume hospitals (HVHs) among patients undergoing complex cancer …