Disease severity and treatment in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: the impact of race and economic status

• Published in: The spine journal Vol. 15; no. 5; pp. 939 - 943
• Main Authors: Zavatsky, Joseph M., MD, Peters, Austin J., MD, Nahvi, Farzon A., MD, Bharucha, Neil J., MD, Trobisch, Per D., MD, Kean, Kristin E., MS, Richard, Sandra, CMA, Bucello, Yolanda, BSN, Valdevit, Antonio, MSc, Lonner, Baron S., MD
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.05.2015
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis; African Americans; Child; Deformity; Ethnicity; European Continental Ancestry Group; Female; Hispanic Americans; Humans; Insurance, Health; Male; Orthopedics; Outcomes; Retrospective Studies; Scoliosis - epidemiology; Scoliosis - ethnology; Scoliosis - surgery; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic status; Ethnicity; Deformity; Socioeconomic status; Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis; Outcomes

Abstract Background context Ethnic disparities have been documented in the incidence and treatment of many diseases. Additionally, race and socioeconomic status (SES) have been shown to affect disease severity and access to care in the recent orthopedic literature. Purpose To assess the role, if any...