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Health Care Accessibility for Chronic Illness Management and End-of-Life Care: A View from Rural America
Article first published online: 11 MAY 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2011.00584.x
© 2011 American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Inc.
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Artnak, K. E., McGraw, R. M. and Stanley, V. F. (2011), Health Care Accessibility for Chronic Illness Management and End-of-Life Care: A View from Rural America. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 39: 140–155. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2011.00584.x
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- Issue published online: 11 MAY 2011
- Article first published online: 11 MAY 2011
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Nearly $2 trillion is spent annually in the U.S. treating chronic illness — yet accessibility to quality health care services in rural communities for the chronically ill and dying remains problematic. Unique barriers present special challenges to a meaningful discussion of and subsequent strategies for addressing these issues in the context of increasingly scarce resources.