International Journal of Health Geographics

Table 1 Commuting time of dialysis patients

From: The impact of rural hospital closures on equity of commuting time for haemodialysis patients: simulation analysis using the capacity-distance model

	Whole prefecture		Urban		Rural		P (urban vs rural)*
	Model**		Model**		Model**		Model**
	1	2	1	2	1	2	1	2
N	7374	7374	5538	5538	1836	1836
Median (min)	7.09	7.97	6.32	6.94	13.26	15.26	<0.001	<0.001
IQR (min)	4.92-11.48	4.98-14.90	4.43-9.25	4.60-11.21	7.89-20.12	9.37-26.32
Range (min)
Minimum	0	0	0	0	0	0
Maximum	59.63	96.03	35.86	60.24	59.63	96.03
Gini coefficient	0.381	0.438	0.311	0.389	0.363	0.405

*Mann -Whitney test.
**Model 1: distance model; Model 2: capacity-distance model.
IQR: interquartile range.

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