乳腺成像社区宣传:放射科医生可以做些什么来缩小未保险人口的差距
Claudia Cotes1, Anastasiia Morozova1, Sara Pourhassan1
1From the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 6431 Fannin St, Suite 2.010, Houston, TX 77030.
概括
数百万没有保险的人,不成比例的少数民族,面临着延迟的乳腺癌查和更糟糕的结果. 放射科医生必须解决这些差异,以改善这种脆弱人群的护理机会,并减少护理差距.
科学领域:
- 医疗保健服务研究 医疗服务研究
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 放射学 放射学是一门学科.
背景情况:
- 负担得起的医疗保健法案减少了没有保险的人口,但在2022年仍有2640万人没有保险.
- 健康的社会决定因素有助于保险覆盖的差异,不成比例地影响少数群体.
- 随着COVID-19的流行,乳房影像查受到影响,少数群体的康复速度较慢.
研究的目的:
- 为放射科医生提供有关未保险人群在乳腺癌查方面面临的挑战的信息.
- 突出乳腺癌对没有保险的少数民族妇女造成的不成比例影响.
- 建议乳腺成像仪的策略,以提高未保险患者的查准入和合规性.
主要方法:
- 对医疗保险状况,健康的社会决定因素和乳腺癌查差异的现有文献的审查.
- 对查性乳房学趋势及其对不同人口群体的影响的分析.
- 为放射科医生确定潜在的干预措施,以解决访问和合规差距.
主要成果:
- 没有保险的个人,特别是少数群体,经历了延迟诊断和乳腺癌的较差结果.
- 疫情后,少数民族妇女的查差距仍然很大.
- 这些差异与缺乏覆盖,获得护理和护理的连续性有关.
结论:
- 放射科医生和乳房成像师必须承认无保险和少数群体患者的独特挑战.
- 需要有针对性的策略来改善这些人群的乳房扫描查准入和遵守.
- 解决这些差异对于降低乳腺癌死亡率和提高生存率至关重要.
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