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The Cost of Poverty: The Relationship Between Insurance Status, Length of Stay, and Discharge Disposition in Trauma Patients

Mar 30, 2024 | journals.sagepub.com | Alexandria Bontrager |Andrew Medvecz |Candice Smith |Michael Smith |Michaël Smith

Key Takeaways•Excess length of stay, the days between “medical readiness” and discharge, were not associated with insurance status. •Although uninsured patients were the youngest and had the least baseline comorbidities, they had the longest length of stay after regression analysis.

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