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Racial Disparities in Readmissions Following Initial Hospitalization for Sepsis

Critical Care Medicine, 2021
OBJECTIVES: To assess whether Black race is associated with a higher rate of all-cause readmission compared with White race following community-onset sepsis. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study.
Bryan D, Lizza, Kevin D, Betthauser, Paul H, Juang, Nicholas B, Hampton, Patrick G, Lyons, Marin H, Kollef, Scott T, Micek   +6 more
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Racial Disparities in Medicaid Asthma Hospitalizations

Pediatrics, 2017
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Black children with asthma comprise one-third of all asthma patients in Medicaid. With increasing Medicaid coverage, it has become especially important to monitor Medicaid for differences in hospital practice and patient outcomes by race.METHODS:A multivariate matched cohort design, studying 11 079 matched pairs of children in
Jeffrey H, Silber, Paul R, Rosenbaum, Shawna R, Calhoun, Joseph G, Reiter, Alexander S, Hill, James P, Guevara, Joseph J, Zorc, Orit, Even-Shoshan   +7 more
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Racial differences in childhood hospitalized pedestrian injuries

Pediatric Emergency Care, 1992
This research provides an epidemiologic analysis of pedestrian-related injury discharges from The Children's Hospital of Alabama in Birmingham, utilizing a case-control design. Evidence is provided supporting the racial disproportionality of serious, nonfatal pedestrian injuries in children.
W D, King, P A, Palmisano
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Racial and ethnic disparities in hospital observation in Maryland

The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2021
Hospital observation is a key disposition option from the emergency department (ED) and encompasses up to one third of patients requiring post-ED care. Observation has been associated with higher incidence of catastrophic financial costs and has downstream effects on post-discharge clinical services.
Cody, Cichowitz, Gideon, Loevinsohn, Eili Y, Klein, Elizabeth, Colantuoni, Panagis, Galiatsatos, Jodi, Rennert, Nathan A, Irvin   +6 more
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Racial Segregation and Differential Outcomes in Hospital Care

Western Journal of Nursing Research, 2007
This exploratory study of patients in Pennsylvania (PA) and Virginia (VA) hospitals in 1998-1999 measures the segregation of care for Black patients receiving inpatient care for specific medical and surgical conditions. It also examined inpatient mortality risk for Black patients and the impact of treatment in heavily segregated hospitals on mortality
Sean P, Clarke, Bertha L, Davis, Regina E, Nailon   +2 more
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Racial/ethnic disparities in hospital utilization in intracerebral hemorrhage

International Journal of Stroke, 2019
Background and purpose There is evidence that racial and ethnic differences among intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) patients exist. We sought to establish the occurrence of disparities in hospital utilization in the United States. Methods We identified ICH patients from United States Nationwide Inpatient Sample database for years 2006–2014 using codes ...
Salvador, Cruz-Flores, Gustavo J, Rodriguez, Mohammad Rauf A, Chaudhry, Ihtesham A, Qureshi, Mohtashim A, Qureshi, Paisith, Piriyawat, Anantha R, Vellipuram, Rakesh, Khatri, Darine, Kassar, Alberto, Maud   +9 more
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Racial Disparities in Hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care–Sensitive Conditions

American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2010
Variation in the quality of ambulatory care may be a key factor in explaining disparities in health, and these disparities have large cost implications.This study identified differences in hospitalization rates for elderly African-American and white Marylanders for eight ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs).
Sasigant S, O'Neil, Timothy, Lake, Angela, Merrill, Ander, Wilson, David A, Mann, Linda M, Bartnyska   +5 more
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Racial Disparities in Mortality Among Adults Hospitalized After Injury

Medical Care, 2008
Injury is a major cause of death in adults. Although racial disparities in healthcare access and health outcomes are well documented for medical conditions, the influence of race on access to emergent care after injury has received little scrutiny.We sought to determine whether race was associated with risk of in-hospital death after injury.Data from ...
Melanie, Arthur, Jerris R, Hedges, Craig D, Newgard, Brian S, Diggs, Richard J, Mullins   +4 more
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Regional and racial disparities in asthma hospitalizations in Mississippi

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2010
In the United States, asthma hospitalization rates are disproportionately high among blacks compared with other racial/ethnic groups and vary by geographic region. These disparities among asthma hospitalizations might be affected by social, environmental, and health-care access factors.To determine demographic risk factors for asthma hospitalizations ...
Sitesh Ranen, Roy, Emma Elizabeth, McGinty, Sandra Carr, Hayes, Lei, Zhang   +3 more
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Racial Inequities in Mortality Rate in Hospitalized Children

Journal of the National Medical Association
Racial/ethnic inequities for inpatient mortality in children at a national level in the U.S. have not been explored. The objective of this study was to evaluate differences in inpatient mortality rate among different racial/ethnic groups, using the Kids' Inpatient Database.A cross-sectional study of children of ages greater than 28 days and less than ...
Balagangadhar R. Totapally, Paul A. Martinez, Prithvi Sendi, Ramesh Sachdeva   +3 more
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