Survival Rates in Trauma Patients Following Health Care Reform in Massachusetts.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Massachusetts introduced health care reform (HCR) in 2006, expecting to expand health insurance coverage and improve outcomes. Because traumatic injury is a common acute condition with important health, disability, and economic consequences, examination of the effect of HCR on patients hospitalized following injury may help inform the national HCR debate.

Objective

To examine the effect of Massachusetts HCR on survival rates of injured patients.

Design, setting, and participants

Retrospective cohort study of 1,520,599 patients hospitalized following traumatic injury in Massachusetts or New York during the 10 years (2002-2011) surrounding Massachusetts HCR using data from the State Inpatient Databases. We assessed the effect of HCR on mortality rates using a

SUBMITTER: Osler T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9578380 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature