Population Health & Access
How housing, language, substance use, and place shape orthopaedic trauma care.
- Access
- Communication
- Recovery
Current questions
What this program studies
- 01
Access
How do housing and geography shape the path into fracture care?
- 02
Communication
How does primary language relate to treatment and follow-up?
- 03
Recovery
How do substance use and social conditions intersect with injury outcomes?
In progress
Active studies
Homelessness
Orthopedic trauma presentation and outcomes among patients experiencing homelessness; abstract accepted at WOA, manuscript submitted to JAAOS.
SubmissionLanguage and hip fractures
Chart-review study of primary language (and race/ethnicity) and hip fracture care/outcomes, using propensity-score matching; manuscript submitted.
SubmissionMeth and lower extremity trauma
Retrospective chart review of methamphetamine use in lower-extremity trauma (>1,100 patients); abstracts accepted (COS/AAOS), manuscripts on disposition and outcomes submitted.
SubmissionProximal humeral fractures
Proximal humeral fractures analyzed in the NIH All of Us database; abstracts submitted (OTA/WOA/CUSM), manuscript submitted to Orthopedics.
Submission