Racialized Inequities in Knee Arthroplasty Receipt After Osteoarthritis Diagnosis in the US Military Health System.
Hillary SowaJeanne PatzkowskiJohanes IsmawanAlexander G VeloskyKrista B HighlandPublished in: Arthritis care & research (2024)
In the present sample, Asian and Pacific Islander, Black, and Latinx patients were significantly less likely to receive a knee arthroplasty, relative to white patients. Taken together, system-level resources are needed to identify and address mechanisms underlying institutional inequities in knee arthroplasty receipt, such as factors related to systemic and structural, institutional, and personally-mediated racism.