Publications by authors named "Kristen M HoSang"
Background: Endocrine surgery is a core component of general surgery training. The landscape of endocrine surgery education in surgical residency and association with entrance into endocrine surgery fellowships is unknown.
Methods: In total, 353 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-accredited general surgery program websites were identified and categorized by US region, program type and size, and endocrine surgery educational experience type.
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- Future income potential is a significant factor influencing surgical trainees' decisions to subspecialize, as it often requires additional training that can affect career value.
- The study calculated the Net Present Value (NPV) of eight surgical subspecialties and general surgery over 35 years, considering aspects like salary, educational debt, and inflation.
- Results showed that while some subspecialties benefited from not pursuing research years, others faced negative financial returns after adding research time, particularly in academic settings.
Introduction: Medicare determines reimbursement rates for medical services, often setting a benchmark that is followed by private insurers. Across various medical specialties, decreases in Medicare reimbursement have been observed. However, the extent of Medicare reimbursement for endocrine surgery remains unexplored.
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- - The study highlights the need for breast cancer (BC) information to be accessible at a sixth-grade reading level for the general public, noting that BC is the second-most common cancer in women and the readability of online resources in English and Spanish is unclear.
- - Researchers analyzed 60 websites in each language using different readability frameworks, discovering that most English-language sites were hospital-affiliated and had higher reading difficulty, while Spanish sites mostly came from foundations and were easier to read.
- - The findings revealed that many websites in both languages exceed the recommended sixth-grade reading level, suggesting the need for improved readability standards, especially for Spanish translations.
Introduction: Parathyroidectomy is recommended for severe secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) due to end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), but surgery is underutilized. High quality and accessible online health information, recommended to be at a 6th-grade reading level, is vital to improve patient health literacy. This study evaluated available online resources for SHPT from ESKD based on information quality and readability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Medicare significantly influences reimbursement rates, setting a standard that impacts private insurance policies. Despite declining rates in various specialties, the magnitude of these trends has not been examined in breast surgery. This study examines Medicare reimbursement trends for breast surgery operations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Patients use the internet to learn more about health conditions. Non-English-speaking patients may face additional challenges. The quality of online breast cancer information, the most common cancer in women, is uncertain.
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