Background To capture various social determinants of health, recent analyses have used
comprehensive measures of socioeconomic disadvantage such as deprivation and …

Background Demographic factors have been implicated in THA and TKA outcome
disparities. Specifically, patients' racial backgrounds have been reported to influence …

Background The multifaceted effects of socioeconomic status on healthcare outcomes can
be difficult to quantify. The Area Deprivation Index (ADI) quantifies a socioeconomic …

Background Racial and ethnic disparities have been suggested to be associated with poor
outcomes after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). While socioeconomic disadvantage has been …

Background Few studies have investigated whether social determinants of health disparities
(SDHD), which include economic, social, education, health care, and environmental factors …

Background: Social determinants of health (SDOH) are important factors in the delivery of
orthopaedic care. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between …

Background Individual socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with disparities in access
to care and worse outcomes in total joint arthroplasty (TJA). Neighborhood-level SES …

Abstract Background The Index of Concentration at the Extremes (ICE), a measure of
geographic socioeconomic polarization, predicts several health outcomes but has not been …

The concept of identifying and treating patients' comorbidities before surgery initially
appeared in research on cardiothoracic surgery, with a focus on reducing risk factors that …

Background Non-White patients have higher rates of discharge to an extended care facility,
hospital readmission, and emergency department use after primary THA and TKA. The …