Stacey Tinianov, Executive Director at Advocates for Collaborative Education, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Decentralizing clinical trials may help to improve access to cutting edge therapies but, for many in rural areas of the US, even access to standard of care treatments are becoming challenging.
A recent report from medical consulting group Chartis found that 448 rural hospitals – nearly a quarter of the nation’s total – stopped offering chemotherapy services between 2014 and 2024. Texas lost more centers than any other state, making Texas Tech and Childress Medical Center oases in a spreading health care desert.
The problem is distance, with some diagnoses, you’re told you have six months to live. In that situation, you don’t want to spend six months on the road.
– says Al-Rahawan.”
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