2023
The interaction between geriatric and neighborhood vulnerability: Delineating prehospital risk among older adult emergency general surgery patients
Zogg C, Falvey J, Kodadek L, Staudenmayer K, Davis K. The interaction between geriatric and neighborhood vulnerability: Delineating prehospital risk among older adult emergency general surgery patients. Journal Of Trauma And Acute Care Surgery 2023, 96: 400-408. PMID: 37962136, PMCID: PMC10922165, DOI: 10.1097/ta.0000000000004191.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchGeriatric vulnerabilitiesOlder adultsEGS careAdverse outcomesHospital Frailty Risk ScoreEmergency general surgery patientsGreater riskFlorida State Inpatient DatabaseFrailty Risk ScoreGeneral surgery patientsState Inpatient DatabasesArea Deprivation IndexEthnic minority patientsNeighborhood vulnerabilityEGS outcomesHazard ratioOlder patientsSurgery patientsPatient ageEGS conditionsInpatient DatabaseVulnerable patientsPatient residesMinority patientsRisk score
2018
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Longer-term Outcomes Among Emergency General Surgery Patients
Zogg CK, Jiang W, Ottesen TD, Shafi S, Schuster K, Becher R, Davis KA, Haider AH. Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Longer-term Outcomes Among Emergency General Surgery Patients. Annals Of Surgery 2018, 268: 968-979. PMID: 28742704, PMCID: PMC5783796, DOI: 10.1097/sla.0000000000002449.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEmergency general surgery patientsNon-Hispanic whitesGeneral surgery patientsLong-term outcomesNon-Hispanic blacksNon-Hispanic AsiansMinority patientsMajor morbidityUnplanned readmissionSurgery patientsOlder adultsRisk-adjusted Cox proportional hazards modelsEthnic disparitiesCox proportional hazards modelDiagnostic categoriesRacial/Ethnic DisparitiesUS population agesProportional hazards modelNHB patientsNonagenarian patientsNHW patientsBACKGROUND DATAHospital's percentageMortality differencesMedicare data