Access to healthcare has been a hot topic recently. A new study, presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Surgical Infection Society, has identified racial disparities in the management of diverticulitis.
According to the propensity-matched cohort analysis, Black or African American patients were significantly less likely to undergo operative interventions for diverticulitis than their white counterparts.
The presenting author Andrew Tran, MD, a research resident with the General