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Inpatient Surgical Treatment Patterns: RESULTS
16, Nov 2009Population Characteristics
Overall, for patients hospitalized with any uterine fibroid diagnosis, there were 2,136,151 admissions over the five-year period. The number of patients with any uterine fibroid diagnosis on their discharge record increased an average of 4.0% per year. For more than 50% of this subset, the primary diagnosis was uterine fibroids (Table 1). Patients with [...]
- In: Health
- Tags: hysterectomy, leiomyoma, myomectomy, race/ethnicity, uterine fibroid
Data Source
Patients were identified from the Healthcare Utilization Project National Inpatient Sample (HCUP-NIS) for the years 1998-2002. The HCUP-NIS is a national, population-based sample representing 20% of hospital discharges annually in the United States and is prepared by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The number of states contributing data ranged from 22 states [...]
- In: Health
- Tags: hysterectomy, leiomyoma, myomectomy, race/ethnicity, uterine fibroid
Inpatient Surgical Treatment Patterns
14, Nov 2009INTRODUCTION
Uterine leiomyomas (fibroids) are benign, often asymptomatic tumors derived from smooth muscles and the extracellular matrix proteins collagen and elastin. Signs and symptoms of uterine fibroids include heavy or prolonged menstrual bleeding, pain and pregnancy complications. Although patients with benign symptoms may be monitored without treatment, common surgical treatments include hysterectomy (abdominal, vaginal and laparoscopic) [...]
- In: Health
- Tags: hysterectomy, leiomyoma, myomectomy, race/ethnicity, uterine fibroid
With the current low attrition rates from medical school, nearly every student who enters medical school will become licensed to practice, meaning that medical school admissions committees have the sole responsibility of choosing the nation’s future physician workforce. Our study examining the perception of medical schools on barriers to URM recruitment sheds some light on [...]
The overall response rate was 59% (86 out of 144), which compares favorably with the 41% response rate obtained by Dinan et. al. in their medical school survey. Our response rate did not differ by geographic region but was higher among osteopathic schools than allopathic schools (68% versus 55%, P<0.05). Of the responding institutions, 50 [...]
Instrument Development
In developing the American Medical Student Association Diversity Survey (AMSA-DS), we first conducted a review of the relevant literature using a Medline search for combinations of the following key words: “underrepresented minorities,” “medical school admissions,” “diversity,” “recruitment,” “retention” and “representation.” Included were all articles, both research studies and commentary, published between 1985 and 2000 [...]
BACKGROUND
Despite nearly a quarter century of diversity initiatives by government agencies, medical schools and other organizations, the percentage of medical students who belong to historically underrepresented racial and ethnic minority (URM) groups has remained fairly uniform, fluctuating from 8.0% to 12.5%/ while representation of these same minority groups—African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans—in the [...]