Insurance status of gunshot trauma patients affects mortality outcomes
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 11:22
in Health & Medicine
New research findings published in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons indicates that despite similar injury severity, uninsured patients were significantly more likely to die after hospital admission for gunshot injury than were insured patients. This difference could not be attributed to demographics or hospital resource use, and held true even after adjusting for the effects of race, age, gender, and injury severity.
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