News-Medical.Net July 28, 2022
A retirement wave, mass quarantine, or lack of interest to work in the countryside: There are numerous reasons why a more-than-average number of medical practices could be closing at the same time. The system usually can compensate for some of these shortfalls. But there is a point where the situation can become critical. Until now, it was not possible to accurately predict where that point is. A research team from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH) now proposes a method to identify (tipping) points at which an adequate medical treatment of the population can no longer be guaranteed: the first stress test for a healthcare system.
In their newest publication in Nature Communications, the scientists use data from Austria to...
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