[HTML][HTML] Socioeconomic status does not influence the presentation of patients with inguinal hernia at an urban Canadian teaching hospital

C Laane, L Chen, L Rosenkrantz… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Canadian Journal of Surgery, 2022ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Socioeconomic status (SES) has been shown to influence the outcomes of surgical
pathologies in areas with unequal access to health care. The purpose of this study was to
measure the effect of SES on the urgency for inguinal hernia repair in an area with purported
equitable access to health care in the context of a universal health care system. … We
hypothesize that, even in a health care system with theoretical equitable access to care, patients
undergoing inguinal hernia repairs who reside in areas with lower SES will present with …
METHODS
This study is a matched retrospective case–control study. We obtained data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) and the 2016 Canadian Census.
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