Open AccessEffect of Race and Socioeconomic Status in the Treatment of Appendicitis in Patients With Equal Health Care Access
Author(s) -
Steven L. Lee
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
archives of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3644
pISSN - 0004-0010
DOI - 10.1001/archsurg.2010.328
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , medicine , demography , ethnic group , odds ratio , perforation , odds , race (biology) , household income , retrospective cohort study , social class , gerontology , surgery , population , logistic regression , environmental health , geography , materials science , botany , archaeology , sociology , biology , anthropology , political science , law , punching , metallurgy
Lower socioeconomic and minority racial/ethnic status have been linked to delays in surgical care and thus higher appendiceal perforation rates.
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