Comparing Deprivation vs Vulnerability Index Performance Using Medicare Beneficiary Surgical Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Health care researchers, professionals, payers, and policymakers are increasingly relying on publicly available composite indices of area-level socioeconomic deprivation to address health equity. Implications of index selection, however, are not well understood.

Objective

To compare the performance of 2 frequently used deprivation indices using policy-relevant outcomes among Medicare beneficiaries undergoing 3 common surgical procedures.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study examined outcomes among Medicare beneficiaries (65 to 99 years old) undergoing 1 of 3 common surgical procedures (hip replacement, knee replacement, or coronary artery bypass grafting) between 2016 and 2019. Index discriminative performance was compared for benefi

SUBMITTER: Rollings KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11447624 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature