Impact of Local Intravitreal Injection Delivery on Cost, Carbon Emissions, and Attendance in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Annie Switzer, Gurkaran S Sarohia, Eugene Michael, Mark Seamone · 2026
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Description
Switzer and colleagues compared flying eye patients south for injections against treating them locally in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. One hundred seventy-one patients referred for intravitreal injections entered the retrospective analysis. Care patterns ran from the clinic's 2021 launch to late 2024. Costs, travel emissions, and attendance were tallied both ways.
Local treatment cut patient travel emissions by seventy-seven percent. It also saved more than one and a half million Canadian dollars yearly, mostly transport. Missed appointments ran about twenty-one percent in Edmonton versus fourteen percent locally. Switzer concludes the fly-in model wins on all three measures.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Annie Switzer, Gurkaran S Sarohia, Eugene Michael, Mark Seamone |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 24 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |