The potential of a multimodal digital care program in addressing healthcare inequities in musculoskeletal pain management.

ABSTRACT: Digital interventions have emerged as a solution for time and geographical barriers, however, their potential to target other social determinants of health is largely unexplored. In this post-hoc analysis, we report the impact of social deprivation on engagement and clinical outcomes after a completely remote multimodal musculoskeletal (MSK) digital care program managed by a culturally-sensitive clinical team. Patients were stratified in five categories according to their social deprivation index, and cross-referenced with their race/ethnicity, rurality and distance to healthcare facilities. From a total of 12,062 patients from all U.S. states, 8569 completed the program. Higher social deprivation was associated with greater baseline disease burden. We observed that all categories reported

SUBMITTER: Areias AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10564877 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature