The US health care system has experienced great pressure since early March 2020 as it
pivoted to providing necessary care for COVID-19 patients. But there are signs that non …

Delaying routine health care has been prevalent during the COIVD-19 pandemic. Macro-
level data from this period reveals that US patients under-utilized routine health care …

Objective To assess the prevalence of patient administrative tasks and whether they are
associated with delayed and/or foregone care. Data Source March 2019 Health Reform …

Purpose Previous research has identified three common reasons for healthcare avoidance,
cost, complexity, and privacy. This study extends prior work by examining the antecedents to …

A spinal cord injury (SCI) is often a catastrophic event in the life of an individual and its
support system. It is challenging enough to go through this experience, let alone understand …

OBJECTIVE This study attempts to use neurosurgical workforce distribution to uncover the
social determinants of health that are associated with disparate access to neurosurgical …

OBJECTIVE Characterizing changes in the geographic distribution of neurosurgeons in the
United States (US) may inform efforts to provide a more equitable distribution of …

Purpose: After cancer diagnosis, non-White patients and those with multimorbidity use less
primary care and more acute care than non-Hispanic White (NHW) patients and those …

Background Primary care telephone access has been associated with patient satisfaction
and emergency department utilization even after accounting for objective appointment wait …

Vascular access options for HD include tunneled dialysis catheters (TDC), arteriovenous
fistulas (AVF), and arteriovenous grafts (AVG). All approaches have their merits and …