A qualitative assessment of the acceptability of human papillomavirus self-sampling and informational materials among diverse populations.

Background: Disparities in cervical cancer screening rates among marginalized groups is a driver of inequalities in cervical cancer. Self-sampling for human papillomavirus (HPV) testing is a newly emerging alternative to clinician-performed testing to screen for cervical cancer, and has high potential to reduce screening barriers in under-screened and marginalized groups. We study the acceptability in of HPV self-sampling and informational materials among Black/African American, Hispanic/Spanish speaking, American Indian/Alaska Native and transgender/nonbinary populations.

Mechanical bowel preparations not supported in elective colo-rectal surgeries with anastomosis: A retrospective study.

Objective: To analyze the risk and benefit of bowel preparations in elective colo-rectal surgery.

Background: Mechanical bowel preparations (MBPs) have been popularized in colo-rectal surgery since studies in the 1970s, but recent data has called their use into question and examined complication rates between patients with and without bowel preparations.

Methods: A retrospective case-review was performed consisting of 1237 elective colo-rectal surgeries performed by two surgeons between 2008 and 2021.

Impact of Medicaid expansion and state-level racial diversity on breast cancer endocrine therapy prescriptions: A quasi-experimental, comparative interrupted time series study.

Aims: To determine whether Medicaid expansion impacted racially more diverse states similarly as racially less diverse states in endocrine therapy (ET) prescriptions.

Methods: A quasi-experimental, comparative interrupted time series study of Medicaid-financed ET prescriptions from 2011 to 2018 Medicaid State Drug Utilization Database. The exposures were state's Medicaid expansion and racial diversity status.