Does health Insurance affect Head and Neck Cancer Treatment Patterns and Outcomes?
Uninsured patients and patients with Medicaid are more likely to present with metastatic disease, are more likely to not be treated definitively, and are at a higher risk of HNCSM. The treatment gap between Medicaid and private insurance observed in this study should serve as an immediate policy target for health care reform.
Maternal depression may be a contributory factor to infant crying at 3 months of age.