Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on Glioma Care Disparities, 2010-2025

A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies published between 2010 and 2025, examining disparities in adult glioma care. The study, authored by Tomasz Tykocki, synthesizes evidence from 10 studies encompassing more than 180,000 patients. It analyzes the impact of socioeconomic, insurance, geographic, and health-system factors on access to care, treatment intensity, and survival outcomes.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the association between socioeconomic status and survival outcomes based on pooled hazard ratios.
• Modeling the odds of receiving delayed or suboptimal adjuvant therapy based on insurance or geographic factors.
• Investigating the heterogeneity of treatment access disparities across different health systems as described in the meta-analysis.

Strengths

• Follows PRISMA 2020 guidelines for systematic review and meta-analysis methodology.
• Includes more than 180,000 patient records aggregated from 10 studies.
• Reports specific pooled effect estimates, such as a hazard ratio of 1.39 for mortality risk.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is a 298.6 KB document, indicating a limited scope focused on meta-analytic results rather than primary patient-level data.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for certain analyses.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Tomasz Tykocki.

Collection Method

Systematic review and meta-analysis conducted according to PRISMA 2020 guidelines, pooling odds ratios and hazard ratios using random-effects models.

Time Range

Studies published between 2010 and 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-22 06:51:41; freshness should be verified.