Socioeconomic Status Impacts Access to Orthopaedic Specialty Care

Overview

Journal JBJS Rev

Publisher Wolters Kluwer

Specialty Orthopedics

Date 2022 Feb 16

PMID 35171876

Authors

Sehar Resad Ferati

Robert L Parisien

Patrick Joslin

Brock Knapp

Xinning Li

Emily J Curry

Affiliations

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Abstract

»: Options for improving orthopaedic access include increasing Medicaid/Medicare payments to physicians, providing secondary resources to assist patients with limited finances, and reducing language barriers in both clinical care and patient education.

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