Travel

Travel can be stressful enough — especially around the holidays. For families with food allergy, however, the challenges are even harder.

Patients who live outside of metropolitan areas frequently drive for more than 20 minutes for a primary care visit, according to new data published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

According to published results, patients who traveled 40 miles or more to undergo total hip arthroplasty had similar 90-day outcomes and complication rates compared with patients who traveled fewer than 40 miles for surgery.

The risk for mortality was heightened among patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis who experienced more deprivation and lived far from a hospital, according to results published in Respiratory Medicine.

SEATTLE — Receiving travel support may help patients with age-related macular degeneration undergo more injections, regardless of the distance needed to travel for treatment, according to research presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting.

Greater travel time appeared associated with reduced participation in genotype-matched clinical trials among patients with cancer who underwent comprehensive genomic profiling, according to results of a study conducted in Japan.

Travel is a common part of life that we often take for granted — from simple acts of running errands and commuting to work to the bigger trips of visiting out-of-state loved ones and experiencing life-changing moments of world travel.

Longer acting anti-VEGF therapies that require fewer injections and clinic visits may provide greater cost-saving benefit for patients with age-related macular degeneration, according to a study in Clinical Ophthalmology.

Many women are facing extreme travel times to get an abortion, researchers found in one of the first studies to assess the impact of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision.Benjamin Rader, MPH, of the computational epidemiology lab at Boston Children’s Hospital, and colleagues sought to understand changes in travel time to the closest facility providing abortions after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade this summer.

Published results showed patients with bone sarcomas who traveled more miles for treatment had a higher likelihood of receiving high-quality care at a high-volume facility and a lower risk of mortality.