Background: Due to the expansion of telehealth services through 2020 CARES Act, telemedicine’s potential in plastic surgery has gained visibility. This study aims identify populations who may suffer from limited access telemedicine. Methods: We created a telemedicine literacy index (TLI), using multivariate regression model and data United States Census Pew Research Institute survey. A was backwards elimination, with TLI as dependent variable demographics independent variables. The resulting...

Abstract Background Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) is a surgical treatment for osteoarthritis associated with lower morbidity compared total (TKA) in patients isolated unicompartmental arthritis. As disparities have been noted broadly care, it follows that such might be present the utilization of UKA relative to TKA. This study therefore examined racial/ethnic, socioeconomic, and payer status differences UKA. Methods Patients who underwent or TKA between 2016 2020 National...

Objectives Over one-third of icehockey injuries involve the lower extremity (LE). The purpose this study wasto describe epidemiology and mechanism injury men's icehockey-related treated in US emergency departmentsfrom 2013 to 2022.

Study Design. Retrospective review. Objective. The primary aim was to compare length of stay (LOS) and discharge disposition adult spinal deformity (ASD) patients undergoing surgery before during the pandemic. Secondary aims were rates 30-day complications, reoperations, readmissions, unplanned emergency department (ED) visits. Summary Background Data. ASD often require extended LOS non-routine discharge. Given resource limitations Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caution...

While disparities in aspects of distal radius fracture (DRF) management and orthopedics at large have been studied, time to DRF evaluation treatment are unknown. We sought determine if geographic socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with imaging the emergency department (ED) surgery for DRFs.We performed a time-to-event analysis 105 patients undergoing after ED triage within our hospital system between January 1, 2015, 2020. Area Deprivation Index (ADI) national percentile was used as...

Racial/ethnic disparities have been demonstrated across multiple orthopedic sub-specialties. There is a paucity of literature examining in distal radius fracture (DRF) management.

Case: Three pediatric patients with back pain associated Bertolotti syndrome are presented. After failing conservative management, 1 patient underwent mega-apophysis resection, another resection decompression, and the final posterior fusion. All had complete resolution of returned to full activity at follow-up. Conclusion: Lumbosacral transitional vertebrae congenital anomalies spanning a spectrum from partial/complete L5 sacralization S1 lumbarization varying clinical presentations....

Objectives: Given several efforts to improve health care access in California and nationally, we studied whether linguistic socioeconomic disparities changed from 2011 2019 among Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) people Los Angeles, California. Methods: We analyzed survey responses APIA fair participants (n = 5032) the Greater Angeles area May 15, 2011, through October 20, 2019. To assess effect of factors on shifts (ie, insurance status/regular doctor), used a logistic regression...

Data regarding racial/ethnic and socioeconomic differences in revision total hip arthroplasty (rTHA) knee (rTKA) have been inconsistent. This study examined disparities comorbidity-adjusted risk reason for rTHA rTKA.Patients who underwent or rTKA between 2006 2014 the National Inpatient Sample were identified. Multivariable logistic regression models adjusted payer status, hospital geographic setting, patient characteristics (age, sex, Elixhauser Comorbidity Index) used to examine effect of...

Objectives/Hypothesis The objective of this study was to examine the difference between a narrow (between 1 and 2 cm) wide (>2 margin in surgical resection head neck cutaneous melanoma. Study Design Population‐based cohort analysis. Methods Surveillance, Epidemiology, End Results database employed identify patients who had melanoma from 2004 2014. Outcome measures were overall survival (OS) disease‐specific (DSS). Among total 3,583 cases with known margins, 2,641 individuals 942 margins....

The Pacific Islander American population is understudied due to being aggregated with Asian Americans. In this study, we conduct a comparative analysis of directly measured body mass index (BMI), fat percentage (%BF), and blood pressure (BP) between Americans from health screenings in Los Angeles, California. We hope reveal intra-APIA disparities masked by data aggregation.We analyzed BMI, %BF, BP that were objectively trained personnel at Angeles January 2011 December 2019. performed...

According to prior research, Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) immigrants often refrain from seeking health care unless necessitated by medical conditions. Utilizing data screenings conducted in APIA immigrant enclaves Los Angeles, we hypothesize that poorer obesity status would predict higher rates of regular physician access. Analyses involved objectively measured percent body fat (%BF) survey responses collected between 2011 2019. We assessed the association access, adjusting for...

Objectives Electric biking (e-biking) is a rapidly growing recreation, sport, and mode of transportation that often presents to emergency departments (EDs) with high-impact head injuries. This study aimed evaluate the epidemiology e-bike-related concussions closed injuries (CHI) inform more effective injury prevention strategies.

Study Design. Retrospective review Objectives. To evaluate 1) patient satisfaction after adult spine surgery; 2) associations between number of abnormal PROMIS domain scores and postoperative satisfaction; 3) normalization a patient’s worst preoperative score satisfaction. Summary Background Data. Although “legacy” patient-reported outcome measures correlate with surgery, it is unclear whether do. Methods. We included 1119 patients treated operatively for degenerative disease (DSD) or spinal...

Category: Ankle Arthritis; Introduction/Purpose: Total ankle arthroplasty is increasingly being used for the treatment of osteoarthritis when compared to arthrodesis. However, there has been limited investigation into disparities in utilization these comparable procedures. This study examined racial/ethnic, socioeconomic, and payer status likelihood undergoing total with Methods: Patients a diagnosis from 2006 through 2019 were identified National Inpatient Sample, then subclassified as or...

There has been significant growth in non-invasive screening techniques for evaluating abnormal tissue. Vibroacoustography (VA), an imaging modality based on ultrasound-stimulated acoustic emission and non-linear scattering characteristics of the target, previously used to generate relative real-time, pathology-specific image contrast between tissue normal surrounding tissue; however, in-depth assessment yet be completed. VA utilizes two non-destructive low MHz ultrasound tones produce beat...