論文

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2020年6月1日

Driving to childhood cancer hub hospitals: A study on hospital accessibility in Japan

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
  • Anna Tsutsui
  • ,
  • Yukari Taniyama
  • ,
  • Yuko Ohno

21
6
開始ページ
1725
終了ページ
1730
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.31557/APJCP.2020.21.6.1725

© 2020 Asian Pacific Organization for Cancer Prevention. Objective: In 2013, 15 childhood cancer hub hospitals in Japan were designated to provide quality medical treatment and care. The present study assessed hospital accessibility by investigating travel times and distances from patient residences. Methods: A total of 37,309 residence/hospital pairs were generated using the addresses of 15 hub hospitals that were designated in 2019 and local government offies in 2014. Using the Google Directions Application Programming Interface (API), travel times and distances were calculated on the assumption that each patient would arrive by driving to the hospitals by 10 am on Wednesday, November 6, 2019. Thus, after identifying the nearest hospital for each residence and deriving adjusted estimated travel times (AETT), the data were summarized according to the regional block using weighted population descriptive statistics for children under 15 years of age in 2015. The cumulative distribution functions of the weighted mean of AETT were also plotted. Results: Childhood cancer patients could access the nearest hub hospital by traveling approximately 1.78 hours (AETT, range: 0.1 to 41.8) and 91.86 km (range: 1.0 to 1438.0). Moreover, a total of 94.5% of patients had the nearest hub hospital within their own regional block. The cumulative distribution functions of AETT indicated that many children in three blocks with multiple hub hospitals have shorter travel times and better hospital accessibility than those in other blocks. Conclusions: Although feasibility is ultimately dependent on each patient's condition and situation, child cancer patients on average can likely complete hospital visits from home and return within a single day. However, this is likely not the case for children who live at considerable distances from hub hospitals. We found regional differences in travel times and distances, depending on whether a given block contained multiple hub hospitals.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.31557/APJCP.2020.21.6.1725
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32592370
PubMed Central
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7568882
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  • DOI : 10.31557/APJCP.2020.21.6.1725
  • ISSN : 1513-7368
  • eISSN : 2476-762X
  • PubMed ID : 32592370
  • PubMed Central 記事ID : PMC7568882
  • SCOPUS ID : 85087320365

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