Neighborhood Socioeconomic Deprivation and 30-Day Outcomes After Admission for Common Gastrointestinal Conditions: A Large Nationwide Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

To study the associations of neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage with 30-day mortality and readmission for common gastrointestinal conditions, adjusting for individual demographics, comorbidities, access to health-care resources, and treatment facility characteristics.

Methods

We analyzed a nationwide sample of United States Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized from 2017 to 2019 for common gastrointestinal diseases, grouped by diagnosis-related groups. We then estimated the association of neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage, measured by the Area Deprivation Index, with 30-day mortality and readmission utilizing logistic regression models with restricted cubic splines. We performed multistep adjustments for individual socioeconomic status and demogr

SUBMITTER: Blass B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12008582 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature