Fei-Zhang David J, Edwards Evan R, Asthana Shravan, Chelius Daniel C, Sheyn Anthony M, Rastatter Jeffrey C
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 420 E Superior St, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 910 Madison Avenue, Memphis, TN 38163, USA.
Cancers (Basel). 2023 Nov 22;15(23):5522. doi: 10.3390/cancers15235522.
BACKGROUND: There is currently no comprehensive tool that quantifiably measures validated factors of modern technology access in the US for digital inequity impact on esophageal cancer care (EC). OBJECTIVE: To assess the influence of digital inequities on esophageal cancer disparities while accounting for traditional social determinants. METHODS: 15,656 EC patients from 2013-2017 in SEER were assessed for significant regression trends in long-term follow-up, survival, prognosis, and treatment with increasing overall digital inequity, as measured by the Digital Inequity Index (DII). The DII was calculated based on 17 census tract-level variables derived from the American Community Survey and Federal Communications Commission. Variables were categorized as infrastructure access or sociodemographic, ranked, and then averaged into a composite score. RESULTS: With increasing overall digital inequity, significant decreases in the length of long-term follow-up ( < 0.001) and survival ( < 0.001) for EC patients were observed. EC patients showed decreased odds of receiving indicated surgical resection (OR 0.97, 95% CI 0.95-99) with increasing digital inequity. They also showed increased odds of advanced preliminary staging (OR 1.02, 95% CI 1.00-1.05) and decreased odds of receiving indicated chemotherapy (OR 0.97;95% CI 0.95-99). CONCLUSIONS: Digital inequities meaningfully contribute to detrimental trends in EC patient care in the US, allowing discourse for targeted means of alleviating disparities while contextualizing national, sociodemographic trends of the impact of online access on informed care.
背景:目前尚无全面的工具可量化衡量美国现代技术获取的经过验证的因素对食管癌护理(EC)中数字不平等的影响。 目的:在考虑传统社会决定因素的同时,评估数字不平等对食管癌差异的影响。 方法:对2013年至2017年监测、流行病学和最终结果(SEER)项目中的15656例食管癌患者进行评估,以数字不平等指数(DII)衡量总体数字不平等增加时,其长期随访、生存、预后和治疗方面的显著回归趋势。DII基于从美国社区调查和联邦通信委员会得出的17个人口普查区层面的变量计算得出。变量被分类为基础设施获取或社会人口统计学变量,进行排名,然后平均为一个综合分数。 结果:随着总体数字不平等的增加,观察到食管癌患者的长期随访时间(<0.001)和生存率(<0.001)显著下降。随着数字不平等的增加,食管癌患者接受指定手术切除的几率降低(比值比[OR]0.97,95%置信区间[CI]0.95 - 99)。他们出现晚期初步分期的几率也增加(OR 1.02,95% CI 1.00 - 1.05),而接受指定化疗的几率降低(OR 0.97;95% CI 0.95 - 99)。 结论:数字不平等对美国食管癌患者护理中的有害趋势有显著影响,这为讨论有针对性的减轻差异的方法提供了依据,同时将在线获取对明智护理影响的国家、社会人口统计学趋势纳入背景考量。
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