Articles Tagged With: sociodemographics
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Case Managers, Others Can Monitor Utilization Patterns Through EHRs
Research into a novel cancer survivorship database to describe healthcare utilization patterns highlights how this information can be used to coordinate care after treatment — and how difficult it is to obtain.
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No Evidence of Bias on Pediatric Ethics Rounds
Researchers compared sociodemographic factors between patients admitted to an academic children’s hospital during ethics rounds in the PICU, PCTU, and NICU in 2017 and 2018 who were identified as having ethics issues and all other patients admitted to those same units during the same period. The researchers expected racial and/or socioeconomic differences between the groups, with socially vulnerable patients disproportionately identified as having ethical issues on rounds. But they did not find this to be the case.