2024
Value in acute care surgery, part 3: Defining value in acute surgical care—It depends on the perspective
Ayoung-Chee P, Gore A, Bruns B, Knowlton L, Nahmias J, Davis K, Leichtle S, Ross S, Scherer L, Velopulos C, Martin R, Staudenmayer K, Committee T. Value in acute care surgery, part 3: Defining value in acute surgical care—It depends on the perspective. Journal Of Trauma And Acute Care Surgery 2024, 97: e53-e57. PMID: 38706096, DOI: 10.1097/ta.0000000000004347.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2018
Impact of Affordable Care Act Insurance Expansion on Pre-Hospital Access to Care: Changes in Adult Perforated Appendix Admission Rates after Medicaid Expansion and the Dependent Coverage Provision
Zogg CK, Scott JW, Bhulani N, Gluck AR, Curfman GD, Davis KA, Dimick JB, Haider AH. Impact of Affordable Care Act Insurance Expansion on Pre-Hospital Access to Care: Changes in Adult Perforated Appendix Admission Rates after Medicaid Expansion and the Dependent Coverage Provision. Journal Of The American College Of Surgeons 2018, 228: 29-43.e1. PMID: 30359835, DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2018.09.022.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMedicaid expansionAffordable Care ActAdmission ratesPerforation rateInsurance coverageAffordable Care Act's insurance expansionInsurance expansionYoung adultsAcute surgical careDependent coverage provisionBetter patient outcomesFederal poverty levelRace/ethnicityAcute appendicitisHospitalized adultsAcute careParents' insuranceInpatient claimsPatient outcomesACA's impactSurgical careRisk populationsNonexpansion statesPrivileged patientsAge 26