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Socioeconomic status mediates and modifies racial and ethnic disparities in incisional glaucoma surgical outcomes.
Am J Ophthalmol
March 2025
Department of Ophthalmology, Stein and Doheny Eye Institutes, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA; Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, USA. Electronic address:
Purpose: To estimate the proportion of racial and ethnic disparities observed in glaucoma surgical outcomes that can be eliminated by curbing differences in socioeconomic status (SES).
Design: Retrospective cohort study.
Subjects: The entire population of 2016-2018 California (CA) fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries with a claim for incisional glaucoma surgery (trabeculectomy, tube shunt, or EX-PRESS shunt).
Frailty Trajectories Following Adjuvant Chemotherapy and Mortality in Older Women With Breast Cancer.
JAMA Netw Open
March 2025
Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill.
Importance: Frailty assessed at a single time point is associated with mortality in older women with breast cancer. Little is known about how changes in frailty following cancer treatment initiation affect mortality.
Objective: To evaluate the association between claims-based frailty trajectories following adjuvant chemotherapy initiation and 5-year mortality in older women with stage I to III breast cancer.
Contextual Determinants of Health Disparities in Utilization of Community-Based Rehabilitation Services Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries With Traumatic Brain Injury.
J Head Trauma Rehabil
March 2025
Author Affiliations: John Sealy School of Medicine (Mr Onwudebe and Ms Aguirre); Department of Population Health and Health Disparities (Ms Aguirre and Dr Pappadis), Department of Data Science and Biostatistics (Drs. Malagaris and Kuo), School of Public and Population Health; Sealy Center on Aging (Drs Kuo and Pappadis), University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Galveston, Texas; and Brain Injury Research Center, TIRR Memorial Hermann (Dr. Pappadis), Houston, Texas.
Objective: To examine the association between contextual social determinants of health (SDoH) and receipt of first outpatient or home health (HH) rehabilitation visit after hospital discharge among older adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Texas.
Setting: Community following hospital discharge.
Participants: 19 117 patients aged 66 and older hospitalized for a TBI from January 1, 2014, and discharged up to December 31, 2018, who returned home within 90 days from discharge.
Trend and Provider- and Organizational-Level Factors Associated With Early Palliative Care Billing Among Patients Diagnosed With Distant-Stage Cancers in 2010-2019 in the United States.
J Clin Oncol
March 2025
Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.
Purpose: Early integration of specialized palliative care (PC) is recommended by clinical guidelines for advanced-stage cancers, but real-world evidence of its use is limited. We examined the recent trend of early PC billing among Medicare beneficiaries with distant-stage cancers and associated provider- and organization-level factors.
Methods: Using SEER-Medicare data, we identified Medicare Fee-For-Service beneficiaries 65.
Enhanced COVID-19 Provider Relief, Hospital Finances, and Care for Medicare Inpatients.
JAMA Health Forum
March 2025
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Importance: Congress appropriated $178 billion in emergency relief for health care providers (hospitals, physicians, and other health care professionals) in 2020 to stabilize finances and support the COVID-19 pandemic response. The US Department of Health and Human Services directed $35 billion of these funds to safety-net hospitals and high-impact hospitals using strict criteria. However, the importance of enhanced funding is inadequately understood.
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