Social determinants of health and neurosurgical outcomes: current state and future directions

G Glauser, DK Detchou, R Dimentberg… - …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
The relationship between social determinants of health (SDOH) and neurosurgical
outcomes has become increasingly relevant. To date, results of prior work evaluating the …

Systematic review of racial, socioeconomic, and insurance status disparities in neurosurgical care for intracranial tumors

J Mendoza, DJ Pangal, T Cardinal, PA Bonney… - World Neurosurgery, 2022 - Elsevier
Background The impact of race, socioeconomic status (SES), insurance status, and other
social metrics on the outcomes of patients with intracranial tumors has been reported in …

Association of area deprivation index (ADI) with demographics and postoperative outcomes in pediatric brain tumor patients

AO Aguirre, J Lim, AA Baig, N Ruggiero, M Siddiqi… - Child's Nervous …, 2024 - Springer
Purpose Although social determinants of health (SDOH) have been associated with adverse
surgical outcomes, cumulative effects of multiple SDOH have never been studied. The area …

Low Household Income Increases Hospital Length of Stay and Decreases Home Discharge Rates in Lumbar Fusion

RS Gallagher, R Karsalia, AJ Borja… - Global Spine …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Study Design Retrospective Matched Cohort Study. Objectives Low median household
income (MHI) has been correlated with worsened surgical outcomes, but few studies have …

[HTML][HTML] Socioeconomic Status Predicts Short-Term Emergency Department Utilization Following Supratentorial Meningioma Resection

M Spadola, AS Farooqi, AJ Borja, R Dimentberg… - Cureus, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods A total of 349 consecutive patients undergoing supratentorial meningioma
resection over a six-year period (2013-2019) were analyzed retrospectively. Primary …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of Gender Disparities in Short-Term and Long-Term Outcomes Following Posterior Fossa Tumor Resection

AS Farooqi, S Jiang, AJ Borja, DKED Detchou… - Cureus, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods Two hundred seventy-eight consecutive patients undergoing posterior fossa tumor
resection over a six-year period (June 07, 2013, to April 29, 2019) at a single academic …