Characterizing Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Access to Surgery for Pituitary Adenomas at High-Volume Hospitals in the United States: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis from the National Cancer Database

Objective: Surgery is the most common treatment for symptomatic pituitary adenomas (PAs). Although it has been shown that pituitary surgery performed at high-volume facilities (HVFs) are associated with better outcomes, use of such hospitals may not be equitably distributed. In this study, the authors set out to evaluate racial and socioeconomic differences in access to PA surgery at high-volume hospitals in the United States.