Justin Blackburn, PhD

This letter addresses a letter about the study, "The Relationship Between Preventive Dental Care and Overall Medical Expenditures," with the letter detailing why quasi-experimental studies should be used to address bias from unobserved factors.

Limiting health-related social needs screening to lower-income areas would reduce screening burdens; however, this study found a 2-stage screening approach based on geography to be suboptimal.

Using an instrumental variable approach, this study is the first to present causal estimates of the effect of preventive dental visits on overall medical expenditures.

Community social determinants of health such as rurality and low socioeconomic status moderate the association between an individual’s race and emergency care use.

The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between inpatient opioid receipt and care experiences of women hospitalized for vaginal delivery.

Concerns regarding the quality measure for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder may limit its usefulness and its ability to promote improvement efforts.

Barriers to less resource-intensive settings may contribute to use of the emergency department for low-severity conditions.