Health Insurance Status and Unplanned Surgery for Access-Sensitive Surgical Conditions.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Access-sensitive surgical conditions, such as abdominal aortic aneurysm, ventral hernia, and colon cancer, are ideally treated with elective surgery, but when left untreated have a natural history requiring an unplanned operation. Patients' health insurance status may be a barrier to receiving timely elective care, which may be associated with higher rates of unplanned surgery and worse outcomes.

Objective

To evaluate the association between patients' insurance status and rates of unplanned surgery for these 3 access-sensitive surgical conditions and postoperative outcomes.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional cohort study examined a geographically broad patient sample from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project State Inpatient Databa

SUBMITTER: Dualeh SHA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10851136 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature