Association of Rurality and Identifying as Black with Receipt of Specialty Care Among Patients Hospitalized with a Diabetic Foot Ulcer: A Medicare Cohort Study

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Examines if rural, Black patients with diabetes receive specialty care at the same rate as the larger, aggregated population of diabetes patients. Analyzes 124,487 Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with diabetic foot ulcers from 2013 to 2014. Includes data broken down by rural versus urban, race/ethnicity, and characteristics and severity of disease.

Lindsay Taylor, Ronald Gangnon, W Ryan Powell, et al.

BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care, 11(2), e003185

04/2023

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Black or African American · Diabetes · Rural-urban differences · Specialty care · Statistics and data