美国尾炎患者获得医疗保健的机会基于保险覆盖
My Yen Tran1, Nirmal Patel2, Abdallah Bakeer3
1Surgery, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, POL.
Cureus
|November 4, 2024
概括
这项研究发现,根据保险类型,尾炎患者的预约等待时间没有显著差异,尽管各州的医生接受和等待时间有所不同. 对于尾炎的医疗保健准入,无论保险情况如何,都保持一致.
科学领域:
- 医疗保健服务研究 医疗服务研究
- 获得医疗保健 获得医疗保健 获得医疗保健
- 手术护理 手术护理
背景情况:
- 医疗保险对于医疗保健的获取和负担能力至关重要.
- 保险计划的变化,包括等待时间和接受,影响紧急患者护理.
- 这项研究调查了在医疗补助覆盖率低的州,尾炎患者的医疗保健准入差异.
研究的目的:
- 为了确定在医疗补助覆盖率较低的州,尾炎患者的医疗保健准入差异.
- 分析一般外科医生接受保险和预约等待时间的差异.
- 为了比较Cigna和Medicaid保险持有人之间的医疗保健准入.
主要方法:
- 在2023年10月20日至11月10日期间,进行了一项虚拟横截面研究.
- 北达科他州,犹他州,怀俄明州和新罕布什尔州的普通外科医生的数据从healthgrades.com.com收集.
- 医生接受Cigna和Medicaid,使用StataCorp 2023分析了平均等待时间.
主要成果:
- 包括81名医生:75.31%是男性,93.83%是医学博士.
- 比起医疗补助 (n=33) 的医生,Cigna被更多的医生接受 (n=77).
- 对于Cigna (9.45±10.54天),平均等待时间比Medicaid (4.71±9.63天) 长,P值>0.05,表明没有显著的关联.
结论:
- 根据保险类型的预约等待期没有发现显著差异.
- 在各州观察到不同的等待时间,但在保险方面没有显著差异.
- 对尾炎患者的医疗保健准入在研究国家的主要保险类型中似乎一致.
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