{
  "abstract": "Rural areas of the USA increasingly experience higher all-cause mortality than urban areas.1 Geographic variability in socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, lifestyle and metabolic characteristics accounts for some, but not all, of this disparity.2 The remaining excess mortality might be driven by disparities in emergency care access because rural residents often live in ‘ambulance deserts’ greater than 25 min from an ambulance station.3 Emergency care–sensitive conditions (ECSCs) are time-sensitive conditions (eg, stroke, myocardial infarction) for which emergency care can prevent mortality.4 We hypothesise that reduced access to emergency care in ambulance deserts contributes to excess ECSC mortality as compared with all other causes of death (non-ECSC).",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Emergency medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Brian Rice"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, Alaska, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Carla Britton"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Center for Alaska Native Health Research, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Stacy Rasmus"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Tina Hernandez-Boussard"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Where the road ends: emergency care sensitive conditions drive excess mortality in medevac-dependent rural Alaska",
  "uid": "41fb4d56-40f8-5ed1-a6d4-eab79d0733bd"
}