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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 Disparities and Pressure Injuries Among Hospitalized Patients

Advances in Skin & Wound Care, 2023
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To describe the demographic factors, hospitalization-related factors, comorbid states, and social determinants of health among racial groups in a sample of patients with a primary or secondary diagnosis of pressure injury (PI) admitted to New Jersey hospitals during the year 2018.
Jill, Cox, Charlotte, Thomas Hawkins
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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 Disparities in Type of Heart Failure and Hospitalization

Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 2018
Heart failure (HF) is one of the leading causes of hospitalization and readmissions. Our study aimed to examine racial disparities in heart failure patients including onset, mortality, length of stay (LOS), direct costs, and readmission rates. This is a secondary data analysis.
Wei-Chen Lee, Hani Serag, Robert L. Ohsfeldt, Karl Eschbach, Wissam Khalife, Mohamed Morsy, Kenneth D. Smith, Ben G. Raimer   +7 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 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 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 Children Hospitalized with Asthma at Academic Childrens' Hospitals

Pediatric Asthma, Allergy & Immunology, 2006
Disparities by race are known for children with asthma in the outpatient setting and post-hospital discharge. We sought to investigate if racial disparities also occur during hospitalization for children with asthma. The Pediatric Health Information System, a 35-hospital dataset from fiscal year 2003, was analyzed for patient-level, institution-level ...
Susan A. Fisher-Owens, Wendy M. Turenne, Kathleen Chavanu, Anthony D. Slonim   +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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Racial Concordance of Nurses and Patients Across Hospitals

Nursing Research
Background A structurally fluent workforce is essential to demonstrate structural competency—the ability to recognize and address how social, political, and economic structures affect health. Such a workforce understands the role of external factors and social determinants in health inequities.
Eileen T. Lake, Christin Iroegbu, John F. Rizzo, Celsea C. Tibbitt, Kimi Li, Jessica G. Smith, Douglas O. Staiger, Nehemiah Weldeab, Jeanette A. Rogowski   +8 more
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