A Systematic Review of Health Disparities Research in Plastic Surgery

Reply: A Systematic Review of Health Disparities Research in Plastic Surgery

“…Disparities in lower limb salvage also require further research, as noted by Naga and colleagues. 2 Although we did not include this topic in our review, we revisited our original data and discovered several relevant articles. For example, a study published in 2000 revealed higher rates of poverty and underinsurance among lower extremity trauma patients compared with the general population, though these factors did not appear to influence the decision of amputation versus reconstruction.…”

“…We thank Das et al 1 and Naga et al 2 for their thoughtful responses to our article, “A Systematic Review of Health Disparities Research in Plastic Surgery.” In their letters, the authors call attention to the lack of gender-affirming surgery and lower extremity reconstruction research in our review. 1,2 Das et al 1 demonstrated that the search algorithm could be improved by adding terms specific to gender-affirming surgery. The authors identified articles that detected socioeconomic disparities among transgender patients.…”