Ninety per cent people with diabetes living in low- and middle-income countries do not receive the kind of care that could make their lives healthier, longer and more productive, according to a new study published in the journal Lancet Healthy .
Preoperative testing is often unnecessary for low-risk surgeries, shows study news-medical.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from news-medical.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Before undergoing surgery, patients often go through a number of tests: blood work, sometimes a chest X-ray, perhaps tests to measure heart and lung function.
In fact, about half of patients who had one of three common surgical procedures done in Michigan between 2015 and the midway point of 2019 received at least one routine test beforehand.
Yet plenty of evidence suggests that preoperative testing is often unnecessary for low-risk surgeries.
Even small bills for health insurance may cause healthy low-income people to drop coverage University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation | May 10, 2021
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Twenty dollars a month might not seem like a lot to pay for health insurance. But for people getting by on $15,000 a year, it’s enough to make some drop their coverage – especially if they’re healthy, a new study of Medicaid expansion participants in Michigan finds.
That could keep them from getting preventive or timely care, and could leave their insurance company with a sicker pool of patients than before, say the researchers from the University of Michigan and University of Illinois Chicago. They have published their findings as a working paper through the National Bureau of Economic Research, ahead of publication in the American Journal of Health Economics.