2025
Area Level Social Deprivation and Use of Prostate MRI Before Prostate Biopsy Among Commercial Insurance Beneficiaries
Smani S, Wang R, Zhou X, Sprenkle P, Kim I, Dinan M, Gross C, Ma X, Leapman M. Area Level Social Deprivation and Use of Prostate MRI Before Prostate Biopsy Among Commercial Insurance Beneficiaries. Urology 2025 PMID: 40759400, DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2025.07.070.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPre-biopsy magnetic resonance imagingProstate magnetic resonance imagingMagnetic resonance imagingMagnetic resonance imaging useProstate biopsySocial deprivation indexArea-level measuresDynamic cohort studyMRI useMeasure of area-level deprivationSocioeconomic statusArea-level social deprivationArea-level measures of socioeconomic statusMeasures of socioeconomic statusStrata of socioeconomic statusArea-level deprivationCommercial insurance beneficiariesComposite measureBiopsyProstateNon-metropolitan areasDeprivation indexRural/urban statusResonance imagingSociodemographic factors
2024
Area Vulnerability and Disparities in Therapy for Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma
Rahman S, Long J, Westvold S, Leapman M, Spees L, Hurwitz M, McManus H, Gross C, Wheeler S, Dinan M. Area Vulnerability and Disparities in Therapy for Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma. JAMA Network Open 2024, 7: e248747. PMID: 38687479, PMCID: PMC11061765, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.8747.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMetastatic renal cell carcinomaArea-level measuresRenal cell carcinomaPatient-level factorsSystemic therapyEthnic disparitiesRelative risk ratiosSocially vulnerable areasCell carcinomaMeasures of social vulnerabilityMedicare beneficiariesCohort studyFee-for-service Medicare Parts AOdds ratioReceipt of systemic therapyLogistic regressionArea-level characteristicsAssociated with lack of treatmentNon-Hispanic blacksRetrospective cohort studyIndividual-level demographicsNon-Hispanic whitesAssociated with disparitiesUS Medicare beneficiariesMeasures of disadvantage
2021
Mediators of racial disparity in the use of prostate MRI.
Leapman M, Dinan M, Pasha S, Washington S, Ma X, Gross C. Mediators of racial disparity in the use of prostate MRI. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2021, 39: 6554-6554. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2021.39.15_suppl.6554.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchProstate cancerRacial disparitiesProstate MRIMRI useArea-level measuresObserved racial disparitiesEligible patientsPathologic factorsDual eligibilityWhite patientsBlack patientsSEER regionMedicare databaseCancer careSix-month periodPatientsSociodemographic factorsCancerMRIZip codesOlder AmericansMediatorsDiagnostic toolObserved disparitiesHigh-poverty areas
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