Rural Versus Urban Health Service Utilization and Outcomes for Renal Patients in New South Wales: Protocol for a Data Linkage Study

Sradha Kotwal   ¹ , MB,ChB ;   Angela Webster   ^{2, 3} , PhD ;   Alan Cass   ⁴ , PhD ;   Martin Gallagher   ^{1, 5} , PhD

¹ The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

² Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

³ Centre for Transplant and Renal Research, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia

⁴ Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia

⁵ Concord Clinical School, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia