Yale Medicine School: Physicians Need to Move Beyond Checklists to Address Disparities in Arthroplasty Care
June 08, 2022
June 08, 2022
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, June 8 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news on June 7, 2022:
One of the many challenges that orthopaedic surgeons face today is evaluating a patient as a whole by looking beyond a checklist that determines eligibility for surgery. When orthopaedic surgeons decline to perform joint replacements on patients with comorbidities, are underrepresented populations being disproportionately impacted? The data show the answer is yes.
One of the many challenges that orthopaedic surgeons face today is evaluating a patient as a whole by looking beyond a checklist that determines eligibility for surgery. When orthopaedic surgeons decline to perform joint replacements on patients with comorbidities, are underrepresented populations being disproportionately impacted? The data show the answer is yes.