Effect of Health System on the Association of Rurality and Level of Disadvantage with Receipt of Diabetic Eye Screening

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Examines the role of disadvantage related to rural versus urban disparities of eye screenings in Wisconsin. Analyzes 118,707 adults with diabetes who had billed claims recorded in a 2012-2013 all-payer database. Includes demographic information including age, gender, insurance payer, clinic rurality, clinic disadvantage, and hierarchical condition category (HCC) risk score. Discusses the need for health system-level change to address social determinants of health.

Loren J Lock, Roomasa Channa, Meghan B Brennan, Ying Cao, Yao Liu

BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care, 10, e003174

12/2022

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Diabetes · Health disparities · Health screening · Rural-urban differences · Social determinants of health · Statistics and data · Wisconsin