Background: Skin tumors affect many people worldwide, and surgery is the first treatment
choice. Achieving precise preoperative planning and navigation of intraoperative sampling …

Objective: This study aims to identify opportunities to improve surgical equity by evaluating
unmet social health needs by race, ethnicity, and insurance type. Background: Although …

Background COVID-19 is known to have altered the capacity to perform surgical procedures
in numerous health care settings. The impact of this change within the direct and private …

Background A multimodal approach of surgery and chemotherapy, with or without radiation,
is the mainstay of therapy with curative-intent for resectable pancreatic ductal …

Do Community-level Disadvantages Account for Racial Disparit... : Clinical Orthopaedics
and Related Research® Do Community-level Disadvantages Account for Racial Disparities …

OBJECTIVE The American Spine Registry (ASR) is a collaborative effort between the
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the American Association of Neurological …

Abstract Objectives Safety-net hospitals (SNHs) provide essential services to predominantly
underserved patients regardless of their ability to pay. We hypothesized that patients who …

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the association between county-
level socioeconomic status (SES) and the incidence of and surgical treatment for pituitary …

Background Individual socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with disparities in access
to care and worse outcomes in total joint arthroplasty (TJA). Neighborhood-level SES …

Background The purpose of this study was to understand racial and ethnic disparities in
hospital-based, Medicare-defined outpatient total knee arthroplasty (TKA). We aimed to …