Pål Kraft, Brage Kraft
The income-happiness nexus: uncovering the importance of social comparison processes in subjective wellbeing
Frontiers in psychology
limited crossinstitutional studies compare strip craniectomy versus cranial vault remodeling cvr craniosynostosis management given competing surgical preferences authors conducted largescale analysis socioeconomic differences costs complications treatment options nonsyndromic craniosynostosis patients receiving strip craniectomies cvr identified kids inpatient database years 2000 2009 demographics socioeconomic background hospital characteristics charge outcomes tabulated univariate multivariate analyses performed comparison two hundred fiftyone strip craniectomies 1811 cvr patients captured significantly strip craniectomy patients white cvr patients hispanic black p 00001 strip craniectomy patients often private insurance cvr patients medicaid p 00001 time cvr trended toward treating higher proportion hispanic medicaid patients p 0036 perioperative charges associated cvr 27962 strip craniectomies 11001 controlling patient payer income bedsize length stay p 00001 strip craniectomies performed frequently west midwest cvr common south p 0001 length stay significant postsurgical complications largely equivocal cvr associated increased accidental puncture p 0025 serum transfusion p 0002 national longitudinal comparison demonstrates widening socioeconomic disparities strip craniectomy cvr patients cranial vault remodeling commonly performed underrepresented minorities patients medicaid strip craniectomy common white population patients private insurance hospital charges complications higher among cvr differences smaller expected