2019
Early Impact of the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid Expansion on Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Cancer Care
Mahal A, Chavez J, Yang D, Kim D, Cole A, Hu J, Trinh Q, Yu J, Nguyen P, Mahal B. Early Impact of the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid Expansion on Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Cancer Care. American Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2019, 43: 163-167. PMID: 31904711, DOI: 10.1097/coc.0000000000000588.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAffordable Care ActAffordable Care Act implementationMedicaid expansionUninsured rateCare ActInsurance coverageInsurance coverage gapsMultivariate logistic regressionCoverage gapSocioeconomic disparitiesCare objectivesSociodemographic disparitiesRacial disparitiesLow-incomeNonelderly adultsLogistic regressionMedicaidBlack patientsDisparitiesEarly impactInsurancePotential benefitsPatientsCancerAffordability
2016
National sociodemographic disparities in the treatment of high‐risk prostate cancer: Do academic cancer centers perform better than community cancer centers?
Mahal B, Chen Y, Muralidhar V, Mahal A, Choueiri T, Hoffman K, Hu J, Sweeney C, Yu J, Feng F, Kim S, Beard C, Martin N, Trinh Q, Nguyen P. National sociodemographic disparities in the treatment of high‐risk prostate cancer: Do academic cancer centers perform better than community cancer centers? Cancer 2016, 122: 3371-3377. PMID: 27434225, DOI: 10.1002/cncr.30205.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAcademic Medical CentersAgedBlack or African AmericanCancer Care FacilitiesCommunity Health ServicesDatabases, FactualDemographyFollow-Up StudiesHealthcare DisparitiesHispanic or LatinoHumansMaleMedically UninsuredNeoplasm GradingNeoplasm StagingPrognosisProstatic NeoplasmsQuality of Health CareRisk FactorsSocioeconomic FactorsUnited StatesWhite PeopleConceptsHigh-risk prostate cancerCommunity cancer centerProstate cancerAcademic cancer centerCancer CenterDefinitive therapyTreatment delayTreatment of high-risk prostate cancerAcademic centersNational Cancer Data BaseMultivariate Cox regression analysisSociodemographic disparitiesHigh-risk cancerCancer treatment patternsMultivariate Cox regressionTiming of therapyCox regression analysisMultivariate logistic analysisTreatment disparitiesCommunity centersExperience treatment delaysUninsured patientsTreatment patternsGray's testCox regression