Background While health-related social needs (HRSN) are known to compromise health,
work to date has not clearly demonstrated the relationship between clinically acknowledged …

Introduction Health-related social needs are known drivers of health and health outcomes,
yet work to date to examine health-related social needs using ICD-10 Z-codes remains limited…

Introduction The high prevalence of multiple chronic conditions (MCC), multimorbidity, and
frailty may affect treatment and outcomes for older adults with cancer. The goal of this study …

Using a multi-institutional EMR registry we extracted housing status and evaluated the
presence of several important comorbidities in order to describe the demographics and …

Background and Objectives People with epilepsy, one-third of whom in the United States are
on Medicaid, experience a wide range of chronic and physical comorbidities that influence …

Importance The association between cancer mortality and risk factors may vary by geography.
However, conventional methodological approaches rarely account for this variation. …

Background: Disparities in the stage at diagnosis for breast cancer have been independently
associated with various contextual characteristics. Understanding which combinations of …

In academic medicine, the attrition of the physician–scientist workforce has been significantly
discussed for the past three decades, with substantial attention and funding targeted to …

Importance Although nearly 1 million older patients are admitted for emergency general
surgery (EGS) conditions yearly, long-term survival after these acute diseases is not well …

Objective To identify disparities in care pathways and time from first seizure to epilepsy
diagnosis, we examined 2010–2014 Medicaid claims (including pharmacy) data from 16 States …