Socioeconomic determinants impact quality of life at vestibular schwannoma diagnosis.
Alexandra E QuimbyMandy K SalmonChristopher H ZhaoJohn Y K LeeDouglas C BigelowMichael J RuckensteinJason A BrantPublished in: Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia (2023)
Socioeconomic factors including race, health insurance, and income appear to contribute to quality of life at the time of vestibular schwannoma diagnosis. These variables are interrelated and the effects of race may be mediated in part by differences in income and health insurance coverage.