Jennifer A Owens,Godwin Okoye,Flavius R W Lilly et al. Jennifer A Owens et al.

To document the characteristics, costs, and services of lodging organizations that support domestic medical travelers and introduce a publicly accessible, geocoded national dataset to inform health services research and policy....We conducted a cross-sectional descriptive study of lodging organizations serving patients and caregivers traveling for medical care across the United States between April 2023 and May 2024. Structured data collection and geospatial mapping were performed....-based lodging organizations meeting eligibility criteria: providing temporary accommodations to patients and caregivers traveling for care. Data were geocoded and analyzed using ArcGIS and R (version 2024.04.2).