TY - JOUR
T1 - Disparities in Access to Musculoskeletal Care
T2 - Narrowing the Gap: AOA Critical Issues Symposium
AU - Salazar, Dane H.
AU - Dy, Christopher J.
AU - Choate, W. Stephen
AU - Place, Howard M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 by the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Incorporated.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/11/20
Y1 - 2019/11/20
N2 - The current health-care system in the United States has numerous barriers to quality, accessible, and affordable musculoskeletal care for multiple subgroups of our population. These hurdles include complex cultural, educational, and socioeconomic factors. Tertiary referral centers provide a disproportionately large amount of the care for the uninsured and underinsured members of our society. These gaps in access to care for certain subgroups lead to inappropriate emergency room usage, lengthy hospitalizations, increased administrative load, lost productivity, and avoidable complications and/or deaths, which all represent a needless burden on our health-care system. Through advocacy, policy changes, workforce diversification, and practice changes, orthopaedic surgeons have a responsibility to seek solutions to improve access to quality and affordable musculoskeletal care for the communities that they serve.
AB - The current health-care system in the United States has numerous barriers to quality, accessible, and affordable musculoskeletal care for multiple subgroups of our population. These hurdles include complex cultural, educational, and socioeconomic factors. Tertiary referral centers provide a disproportionately large amount of the care for the uninsured and underinsured members of our society. These gaps in access to care for certain subgroups lead to inappropriate emergency room usage, lengthy hospitalizations, increased administrative load, lost productivity, and avoidable complications and/or deaths, which all represent a needless burden on our health-care system. Through advocacy, policy changes, workforce diversification, and practice changes, orthopaedic surgeons have a responsibility to seek solutions to improve access to quality and affordable musculoskeletal care for the communities that they serve.
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U2 - 10.2106/JBJS.18.01106
DO - 10.2106/JBJS.18.01106
M3 - Review article
C2 - 31567663
AN - SCOPUS:85075549004
VL - 101
SP - E121
JO - Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series A
JF - Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series A
SN - 0021-9355
IS - 22
ER -