ArticleApplied geography (Sevenoaks, England)2023
Daily changes in spatial accessibility to ICU beds and their relationship with the case-fatality ratio of COVID-19 in the state of Texas, USA.
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- Increasing COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination Uptake in the Take Care Texas Community-Based Randomized Trial: Adaptive Geospatial Analysis.JMIR formative research · 2025Trial
- Urban-rural disparities in spatiotemporal accessibility of pharmacy care: a case study of Vermont, USA.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Urban and rural disparities in general hospital accessibility within a Chinese metropolis.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Healthcare Systems and COVID-19 Mortality in Selected OECD Countries: A Panel Quantile Regression Analysis.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2023Article
- Location selection of field hospitals amid COVID-19 considering effectiveness and fairness: A case study of Florida.International journal of disaster risk reduction : IJDRR · 2023Article
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Abstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients could not receive timely healthcare services due to limited availability and access to healthcare resources and services. Previous studies found that access to intensive care unit (ICU) beds saves lives, but they overlooked the temporal dynamics in the availability of healthcare resources and COVID-19 cases. To fill this gap, our study investigated daily changes in ICU bed accessibility with an enhanced two-step floating catchment area (E2SFCA) method in the state of Texas. Along with the increased temporal granularity of measurements, we uncovered two phenomena: 1) aggravated spatial inequality of access during the pandemic, and 2) the retrospective relationship between insufficient ICU bed accessibility and the high case-fatality ratio of COVID-19 in rural areas. Our findings suggest that those locations should be supplemented with additional healthcare resources to save lives in future pandemic scenarios.
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