International Journal of Health Geographics

Table 2 Gap of commuting time between the distance and the capacity-distance model (sorted according to the proximity rank of commuting facility in the capacity-distance model)

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

		Commuting time (min)
Rank*	N**	Median	IQR
1	4712	0.00	0.00 - 0.00
2	1019	1.23	0.56 - 2.31
3	445	2.39	1.50 - 4.73
4	353	5.81	4.12 - 7.23
5	310	6.90	5.28 - 11.01
6	124	5.46	5.30 - 6.08
7	33	8.78	5.49 - 8-78
8	14	10.47	10.47 - 10.49
9	25	26.56	7.50 - 26.56
10	40	8.97	5.46 - 13.67
11	18	19.13	10.47 - 29.18
12	39	21.63	6.95 - 26.25
13	55	13.87	13.27 - 20.15
14	28	12.31	12.31 - 25.56
15	46	25.47	13.60 - 26.11
16	51	21.99	20.87 - 21.99
17	22	12.31	12.05 - 33.17
18	3	33.58	12.31 - 33.58
19	8	16.47	16.47 - 16.47
21	16	21.99	21.99 - 21.99
23	8	21.99	19.49 - 21.99
29	1	58.26	58.26 - 58.26
36	4	60.00	60.00

*Rank of the commuting facility of a patient in from nearest (rank 1) in the capacity-distance model.Rank 2 means the patient commutes to the second-nearest facility in the model, while in the distance model, all patients commute to rank 1 facilities.
**Number of patients.

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