Objectives: Access to a certified hand therapist (CHT) plays a crucial role in enhancing postsurgical functional outcomes and reducing morbidity in complex hand surgery and trauma cases. Unfortunately, the availability of CHTs is uneven across regions, particularly in less populous states such as Mississippi. The financial and time-related burdens of…
Objectives: Studies have shown that patients enrolled in Medicaid have difficulty obtaining access to care compared with patients with private insurance. Whether variables such as geographic location, state expansion versus nonexpansion, and private versus academic affiliation affect access to care among foot and ankle surgery patients enrolled in Medicaid has…
Objectives: To characterize migration patterns among people diagnosed as having and who died of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) from 1993 to 2007 because migrating to a new community can disrupt human immunodeficiency virus/AIDS care delivery and patients’ adherence to care and affect migrants’ social services and healthcare needs. Methods: Florida…
Background: Hurricane Katrina devastated the New Orleans area and dispersed the patient population of the HIV Outpatient Program (HOP) clinic of the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans (MCLNO). Patients began returning to care following the clinic’s reopening in a temporary location in November 2005. Methods: Cross-sectional analyses were…
Background:Although prayer and other spiritual practices are common among residents of the rural south, the use of faith-based healers (FBH), or healers who use prayer as their primary healing modality, has not been explored in this population. Methods:Secondary data analysis from a random digit dialing telephone survey of rural adults…
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