Trends from 2008–2018 in Electricity-Dependent Durable Medical Equipment Rentals and Sociodemographic Disparities

The authors used Kaiser Permanente South California electronic health record data to calculate annual prevalence of equipment rental, then stratified it by rental of breast pumps or other equipment. Their findings "suggest that energy access is increasingly critical in meeting the health needs of medically disadvantaged groups" and the need will only increase as the number of disaster-related power outages increases.