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Policies favoring high-volume hospitals may disadvantage rural cancer patients

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Patients with cancer who live in rural Pennsylvania counties appear to know that they may have better outcomes if they receive their cancer surgery at a hospital that performs a high volume of those surgeries, but still opt for lower volume hospitals closer to home when their cancer is likely less complex, according to an analysis by health policy scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health. 

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