在国家援助计划覆盖的未保险患者肝移植的可接受结果
Flavio Paterno1, Grace S Lee-Riddle1, Raquel Olivo2
1Department of Surgery, Division of Liver Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and University Hospital, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
概括
缺乏医疗保险是肝移植 (LT) 的障碍. 这项研究发现,接受慈善护理的未保险患者的结果与保险患者的结果相似,这表明慈善护理可以减轻差异.
科学领域:
- 肝病学 肝病学是一种肝病学.
- 移植手术 移植手术
- 医疗保健服务研究 医疗服务研究
背景情况:
- 医疗保险对于获得医疗保健至关重要,包括拯救生命的肝移植 (LT).
- 没有保险的身份可能是LT评估和治疗的障碍,引发了对结果潜在差异的担忧.
- 国家赞助的慈善护理计划可能提供一种解决方案,以减轻这些获取和结果差异.
研究的目的:
- 评估由国家慈善护理计划支持的无保险肝移植 (LT) 患者的结果.
- 为了比较无保险的LT接受者的结果与私人和政府保险患者的结果.
- 确定非保险身份,与慈善护理是否与LT后患者或移植存活率较差有关.
主要方法:
- 从2002年到2020年在一个中心连续移植肝脏 (LT) 患者的回顾性分析.
- 患者被分为三个组:私人保险,政府保险 (医疗保险/医疗补助) 和无保险 (慈善护理).
- 人口,临床,社会变量和结果指标 (患者/移植存活率,停留时间,再入院) 被收集和比较.
主要成果:
- 在978名LT接收者中,有60人没有接受慈善护理的保险. 慈善机构的患者更有可能是西班牙裔,单身,年轻,MELD得分更高.
- 一年和三年患者存活率在所有组中都是可比的 (89.0%/81.8%私人,88.8%/80.1%政府,93.3%/79.6%慈善机构;p=0.49).
- 移植存活率 (p=0.62),住院时间长度和30天再入院率在保险和无保险 (慈善护理) 组之间是相似的. 在多变量分析中,没有保险的身份与更糟糕的生存率无关 (HR:1.23,p=0.29).
结论:
- 肝移植 (LT) 的结果与私人或政府保险患者相比,在接受慈善护理的无保险患者中是相似的.
- 国家赞助的慈善护理计划似乎有效地缓解了与LT的访问和结果相关的社会经济差异.
- 这些发现支持金融援助计划在确保公平获得肝移植等基本医疗程序方面的作用.
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