Open AccessThe Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sociodemographic Disparities in Rates of Elective Hernia Surgeries
Author(s) -
Samantha Rosen,
Sharon Phillips,
Anand Gupta,
Richard A. Pierce
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
the american surgeon/american surgeon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.331
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1555-9823
pISSN - 0003-1348
DOI - 10.1177/00031348221082273
Subject(s) - medicine , pandemic , elective surgery , health care , covid-19 , descriptive statistics , wilcoxon signed rank test , hernia , health equity , general surgery , emergency medicine , surgery , public health , mann–whitney u test , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , nursing , statistics , mathematics , economics , economic growth
The global pandemic has shed light on the role of health care disparities; however, little data exists to determine how COVID-19 affected access to elective surgical care. We aimed to determine the impact of health care disparities and surgical care for patients undergoing hernia surgery across a national quality collaborative database.