The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sociodemographic Disparities in Rates of Elective Hernia Surgeries | Zendy

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The 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

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.

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