Pelvic Floor Disorders in Black Women: Prevalence, Clinical Care, and a Strategic Agenda to Prioritize Care

CM Carter-Brooks, OE Brown… - Obstetrics and …, 2024 - obgyn.theclinics.com
Pelvic floor disorders (PFDs) are a group of chronic conditions that include pelvic organ
prolapse (POP) and urinary incontinence (UI). PFDs are prevalent, with 25% of a The …

Post-operative outcomes in Indigenous patients in North America and Oceania: A systematic review and meta-analysis

RJ Livergant, K Stefanyk, C Binda… - PLOS Global Public …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Indigenous Peoples across North America and Oceania experience worse health outcomes
compared to non-Indigenous people, including increased post-operative mortality. Several …

Health care disparities in surgical management of pelvic organ prolapse: a contemporary nationwide analysis

GS Yadav, EC Rutledge, T Nisar, J Xu… - …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Objectives Our objective was to compare the rate of native tissue repair (NTR) versus
sacrocolpopexy (SCP) and reconstructive (RECON) versus obliterative repair (OBR) for the …

Racial and ethnic disparities in sacrocolpopexy approach

L Nicola-Ducey, O Nolan, S Cichowski… - …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Objective The objective of this study was to determine whether racial or ethnic disparities
exist for open abdominal versus minimally invasive sacrocolpopexy. Study Design Cross …

Racial and socioeconomic disparities in cost and postoperative complications following sacrocolpopexy in a US National Inpatient Database

AA Gurayah, MM Mason, MR Grewal… - World journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose We sought to determine the association between socioeconomic factors,
procedural costs, and postoperative complications among patients who underwent …

Disparities in Access to Thoracic Surgeons among Patients Receiving Lung Lobectomy in the United States

SJ Halloran, CE Alvarado, AL Sarode, B Jiang… - Current …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Objective: Lung lobectomy is the standard of care for early-stage lung cancer. Studies have
suggested improved outcomes associated with lobectomy performed by specialized thoracic …

Health inequities within the field of urogynecology

B Boyd, N Guaderrama, K Mishra… - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Pelvic floor disorders (PFD) encompass urinary incontinence (UI), pelvic organ prolapse
(POP), overactive bladder (OAB), fecal incontinence (FI) and other abnormalities of the lower …

Disparities in benign gynecologic surgical care

K Laughman, NQ Ogu, KJ Warner… - Clinical Obstetrics and …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
A person's health is not only affected by their disease states, but also the quality of care and
posttreatment sequelae. Research shows that disparities exist in benign gynecologic …

Unequal Access and Overall Scarcity of Apical Suspension in Native Tissue Prolapse Repair

EM Schmidt, L Nicola-Ducey, B Osmundsen… - …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Objective The objective was to assess racial and ethnic disparities in apical suspension
during native tissue prolapse repair. Study Design We analyzed data from the 2019 …

Implication of Neighborhood Deprivation Index on Pelvic Organ Prolapse Management

A Alagh, O Ramm, LL Lyon, MLR Weintraub… - …, 2025 - journals.lww.com
Objective The objective of this study was to investigate the association between pelvic organ
prolapse (POP) management and the Neighborhood Deprivation Index (NDI), a …