Hospital-based labor and delivery units are closing at increasing rates in the rural US, significantly impacting maternal and newborn health. The objective of this study to determine if rurality-measured as distance from the hospital-and socioeconomic status-measured as insurance payor-impact both spontaneous and medically indicated preterm birth incidence at a single rural academic institution.
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