Tuesday November 17 (Health Day News) - New research says that the Americans without the health insurance are more likely to die after admission to the hospital with trauma injuries.
“After admission to hospital, trauma patients can have the worst outcomes based on insurance status,” the author of the study wrote. “This finding warrants more rigorous investigation to determine why such variation in mortality would exist in a system where equivalent carte is not only expected by mandated by law.”
Dr. Heather Rosen, from the Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, and some colleague analyzed statistics from the National Trauma Data Bank, which tracked 2.7 million trauma patients admitted to over 900 U.S trauma centers. The researchers looked at 687,091 those were adult and were admitted between 2002 and 2006.
Even when researchers tried adjusting the statistics to eliminate the influence of the factors such as age, gender and race that may throw off the results still patient with no health insurance were more likely to die than the insured patients.
"Treatment often is initiated before status of the payer is recognized; thus, this provokes the question of whether differences exist in processes of care during the hospital stay," written by the study authors. “"We can only speculate as to the mechanism of disparities we have exposed; the true causes are still unclear. Although the lack of insurance may not be the only explanation for the disparity in trauma mortality, the accidental costs of being uninsured in the United States today may be too high to continue to overlook."
“After admission to hospital, trauma patients can have the worst outcomes based on insurance status,” the author of the study wrote. “This finding warrants more rigorous investigation to determine why such variation in mortality would exist in a system where equivalent carte is not only expected by mandated by law.”
Dr. Heather Rosen, from the Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, and some colleague analyzed statistics from the National Trauma Data Bank, which tracked 2.7 million trauma patients admitted to over 900 U.S trauma centers. The researchers looked at 687,091 those were adult and were admitted between 2002 and 2006.
Even when researchers tried adjusting the statistics to eliminate the influence of the factors such as age, gender and race that may throw off the results still patient with no health insurance were more likely to die than the insured patients.
"Treatment often is initiated before status of the payer is recognized; thus, this provokes the question of whether differences exist in processes of care during the hospital stay," written by the study authors. “"We can only speculate as to the mechanism of disparities we have exposed; the true causes are still unclear. Although the lack of insurance may not be the only explanation for the disparity in trauma mortality, the accidental costs of being uninsured in the United States today may be too high to continue to overlook."
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