The Role of Self-Classified Race/Ethnicity, Insurance Status, and Hospital Type in Benign Hysterectomy.

ABSTRACT: Objective: To explore the associations of self-classified race/ethnicity, insurance status, and hospital type with updated appropriateness ratings of hysterectomy among premenopausal patients. Study Design: The study population consisted of patients 18-44 years of age who received a hysterectomy for benign and non-obstetric gynecological conditions between October 2014 and December 2017. Structured and unstructured data were abstracted from electronic medical records (EMR). We estimated weighted prevalence differences (PD_w), ratios (PR_w), and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) between self-classified race/ethnicity (Hispanic, Non-Hispanic Black, and Non-Hispanic White), insurance status at time of surgery (uninsured, Medicaid, and private insur

SUBMITTER: Wright MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12947961 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature