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Leveraging Community Information to Improve Health Equity
Mayo Clinic ProceedingsVol. 97Issue 1p10–11Published in issue: January, 2022- Len M. Nichols
- David J. Ballard
Cited in Scopus: 0In this issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Chamberlain et al1 report that a composite measure of neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage is positively correlated with increased risk of most chronic conditions, with more pronounced associations in younger adults. This exploration of associations between community-level socioeconomic disadvantages and chronic condition prevalence by age, race, ethnicity, and sex is an important step in understanding and eradicating lingering racial and ethnic disparities among Americans’ health and life chances. - Editorial
Rising Health Care Charges: A Red Herring in a Value-Based Health Care World?
Mayo Clinic ProceedingsVol. 94Issue 6p946–948Published in issue: June, 2019- David J. Ballard
- Neil S. Fleming
Cited in Scopus: 0In this issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, through an analysis of urologic surgical episodes of care across 392 hospitals, McClintock et al1 found that although cost per hospital episode of care decreased 20% from 2005 to 2015, the charges for these episodes of care increased more than 25% during this same period. Hospitals with the highest charge to cost ratios were more likely to be safety net, nonteaching, urban, lower surgical volume, smaller, and located outside the Midwest. The methods used in this study meet the traditional criteria for internal validity.
