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ReviewAcademic pediatrics

Tonsillectomy Utilization: Persisting Associations with Ethnicity and Race, Public Insurance, and Rurality Across Studies.

Anne R Links, Jennifer Cooper, Meredith Lind, Laura J Chavez, Emily F Boss

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Review in Academic pediatrics. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Location, location, location: wide geographic and racial/ethnic variations in pediatric polysomnography in US Medicaid children.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Anne R LinksJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine (AR Links), Department of Medicine, Baltimore, Md. Electronic address: alinks1@jhmi.edu.
Jennifer CooperNationwide Children's Hospital, Center for Child Health Equity and Outcomes Research (J Cooper and LJ Chavez), Columbus, Ohio; Ohio State University College of Medicine (J Cooper and LJ Chavez), Department of Pediatrics, Columbus, Ohio; Ohio State University College of Public Health (J Cooper), Division of Epidemiology, Columbus, Ohio.
Meredith LindNationwide Children's Hospital (M Lind), Department of Otolaryngology, Columbus, Ohio; Ohio State University College of Medicine (M Lind), Department of Otolaryngology, Columbus, Ohio.
Laura J ChavezNationwide Children's Hospital, Center for Child Health Equity and Outcomes Research (J Cooper and LJ Chavez), Columbus, Ohio; Ohio State University College of Medicine (J Cooper and LJ Chavez), Department of Pediatrics, Columbus, Ohio.
Emily F BossJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine (EF Boss), Department of Otolaryngology, Baltimore, Md.

Funding

Project CONNECTS (Communication and Outcomes that eNhaNce Equity in Childhood Tonsillectomy and Sleep)R01HL166504 · NHLBI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Emily Frances Boss · 2023 to 2026
$2.3M
Racial/ethnic and geographic differences in pediatric tonsillectomy use: a multilevel investigationR01MD016064 · NIMHD · RESEARCH INST NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSP · PI CHAVEZ, LAURA JOHNSON · 2022 to 2025
$1.8M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL166504NIMHD NIH HHS R01 MD016064
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

ethnicityfacilities and services utilizationhealth care disparitiesracial groupsrural populationtonsillectomy

Identifiers

PMID38986930
PMCPMC11707041

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