Daniel Barkan

Abstract The objective was to examine whether there is concordance between a hospital’s neighborhood area deprivation index (ADI) and hospital cohort social risk. We summarized 2021 inpatient discharges for 203 New York state hospitals from the Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System. The primary independent variable was hospital Medicaid payor mix, classified into five quintiles defined by increasing Medicaid levels, a proxy for hospital cohort social risk.

Open AccessCommunication by Yizhak Hershko 1, Amos Adler 2 and Daniel Barkan 1,* 1 Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 7610001, Israel 2 Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and Tel Aviv University Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.