Abstract
Aim: Evaluate the association of race/ethnicity and socioeconomic position (SEP) on emergency department (ED) visits for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), which may reflect access to and quality of cancer care.Materials & methods: Patients with HCC identified from a commercial multi-payer claims database between 2015 and2018 were matched to near-neighborhood social determinants of health (SDOH) and stratified by race/ethnicity and SEP (proxied by annual household income). Analyses evaluated the effect of race/ethnicity and SEP on ED utilization, adjusting for SDOH, demographic and clinical characteristics using multivariable regression methods.Results: A total of22,247 patients were included. Black and Hispanic patients had 43and 18% higher ED utilization than White patients at higher-income levels (p<0.01); these differences were nonsignificant at lower-income. Regardless of income level, Asian patients had lower ED utilization.Conclusion: Further research on the intersectionality between race/ethnicity, SEP and other SDOH may guide structural-level interventions to address health inequities.
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