Becker's Healthcare March 13, 2024
People who live in areas where primary care provider shortages are more severe are at higher risk of requiring emergency surgery, according to new findings from a study led by researchers at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor.
To conduct the study, researchers analyzed data from patients on Medicare who underwent surgeries for conditions where a scheduled operation is preferably planned, though may be delayed when access to primary care providers is limited, including colectomy for colon cancer, abdominal aortic aneurysm repair and incision hernia repair. They analyzed outcomes in areas the government has deemed Health Professional Shortage Areas from 2015 to 2019, and separated the areas into five levels of severity.
For patients living in areas considered to...
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