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Meghan Hufstader
Researcher at University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Publications - 7
Citations - 360
Meghan Hufstader is an academic researcher from University of Tennessee Health Science Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Health equity. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 7 publications receiving 329 citations. Previous affiliations of Meghan Hufstader include University of Tennessee.
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The comparative burden of mild, moderate and severe Fibromyalgia: results from a cross-sectional survey in the United States
Caroline Schaefer,Arthi Chandran,Meghan Hufstader,Rebecca Baik,Michael McNett,Don L. Goldenberg,Don L. Goldenberg,Robert Gerwin,Gergana Zlateva +8 more
TL;DR: FM imposes a substantial humanistic burden on patients in the United States, and leads to substantial productivity loss, despite treatment, and this burden is higher among subjects with worse FM severity.
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Cultural competency, race, and skin tone bias among pharmacy, nursing, and medical students: implications for addressing health disparities.
TL;DR: The IAT results indicate that these health care preprofessionals exhibit implicit race and skin tone biases: preferences for Whites versus Blacks and light skin versus dark skin.
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Societal and individual burden of illness among fibromyalgia patients in France: Association between disease severity and OMERACT core domains
TL;DR: As FM severity level worsened, patients had poorer overall health status and perceived their prescription medications to be less effective, and FM poses a substantial economic and human burden on patients and society.
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Treatment patterns among physician specialties in the management of fibromyalgia: results of a cross-sectional study in the United States
Michael McNett,Don L. Goldenberg,Caroline Schaefer,Meghan Hufstader,Rebecca Baik,Arthi Chandran,Gergana Zlateva +6 more
TL;DR: Pat characteristics were similar across specialties, except with regards to comorbidity burden, and treatment patterns among medications, diagnostics, and outpatient visits did not identify a dominant strategy for FM management.
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The economic implications of the racial and ethnic disparities in the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
TL;DR: The lower use of SSRIs among minorities compared to non-Hispanic whites is associated with lower health expenditures among minorities, and SSRI may be a proxy for improved access to health care due to under-treatment of depression in general.