Effect of distance to specialist care for the diagnosis and disease outcome of inflammatory bowel disease in the Swiss inflammatory bowel disease cohort study

Background: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) needs early interventions and an individual specialist–patient relationship. Distance from a tertiary IBD center might affect patient’s disease course and outcome. We investigated whether the patient-to-specialist distance has an impact on the disease cou...

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Main Authors: Lorenz Grob, Sena Bluemel, Luc Biedermann, Nicolas Fournier, Jean-Benoit Rossel, Stephan R. Vavricka, Jonas Zeitz, Gerhard Rogler, Andreas Stallmach, Michael Scharl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-01-01
Series:Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1756284819895217