Anaphylaxis is a life-threatening condition, with at-risk individuals remaining at chronic high
risk of recurrence. Anaphylaxis is frequently underrecognized and undertreated by …

Through a series of studies, the overarching aim of this book is to investigate if and how the
digitalization/digital transformation process causes (or may cause) the autonomy of various …

Background Poor socioeconomic status (SES) is consistently associated with poor quality of
health care, particularly in the field of orthopedics. Expanding insurance coverage has …

Background: Health insurance literacy (HIL) is defined as a person's ability to seek, obtain,
and understand health insurance plans, and once enrolled use their insurance to seek …

Background US policymakers are debating whether to expand the Medicare program by
lowering the age of eligibility. The goal of this study was to determine the association of …

Most American households carry debt, yet we have little understanding of how debt
influences health behavior, especially health care seeking. We examined associations …

Objectives To estimate the frequency and factors associated with foregone and delayed
medical care attributed to the COVID‐19 pandemic among nonelderly adults from August to …

One-third of US workers now have high-deductible health plans, and those numbers are
expected to grow in 2014 as implementation of the Affordable Care Act continues. There is …

Objective: The aim of this study was to understand relationships among insurance plan type,
out-of-pocket cost sharing, and the utilization of bariatric surgery among commercially …

BACKGROUND: We sought to determine how health care–related financial burden,
childhood activity limitations, health insurance, and other access-related factors predict …