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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
Silber, Jeffrey H., Rosenbaum, Paul R., Calhoun, Shawna R., Reiter, Joseph G., Hill, Alexander S., Guevara, James P., Zorc, Joseph J., Even-Shoshan, Orit   +7 more
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Racial Differences in Clinical Phenotype and Hospitalization of Blastomycosis Patients [PDF]

Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2019
AbstractBackgroundDimorphic fungal infections, such as blastomycosis, cause significant morbidity and mortality. Historically, blastomycosis studies have focused on non-Hispanic whites, which limits our understanding of the clinical presentation and outcomes for patients of other races and ethnicities.
Anderson, Jennifer L, Frost, Holly M, King, Jennifer P, Meece, Jennifer K   +3 more
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Use of High-Volume Hospitals [PDF]

INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2009
Differences in the source of care could contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in health status. This study looks at a major metropolitan area and examines racial and ethnic differences in the use of high-volume hospitals for 17 services for which there is a documented positive volume-outcome relationship.
Bradford H. Gray, Mark Schlesinger, Shannon Mitchell Siegfried, Emily Horowitz   +3 more
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The effect of market reform on racial differences in hospital mortality [PDF]

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2006
To determine whether racial differences in hospital mortality worsened after implementation of a New Jersey law in 1993 that reduced subsidies for uninsured hospital care and changed hospital payment from rate regulation to price competition.State discharge data for New Jersey and New York from 1990 to 1996.We used an interrupted time series design to ...
Kevin G M, Volpp, Andrew J, Epstein, Sankey V, Williams   +2 more
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Report on Racial Disparities in Hospitalized Patients with Hyperglycemia and Diabetes [PDF]

The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2016
A higher prevalence of diabetes-related complications is reported in minority populations; however, it is not known if there are racial disparities in diabetes care and outcomes in hospitalized patients.Our objective was to determine the association between hyperglycemia, in patients with and without diabetes mellitus (non-DM), and complications among ...
Maya, Fayfman, Priyathama, Vellanki, Anastasia-Stefania, Alexopoulos, Lauren, Buehler, Liping, Zhao, Dawn, Smiley, Sonya, Haw, Jeff, Weaver, Francisco J, Pasquel, Guillermo E, Umpierrez   +9 more
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Racial and Health Disparities among Cirrhosis-related Hospitalizations in the USA [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology, 2021
Abstract Data are scanty on racial disparities in alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) hospitalizations. National Inpatient Sample on 199,748 cirrhosis hospitalizations, 14,241 (2,893 AI/AN, 2,893 whites, 2,882 blacks, 2,879 Hispanics, and 2,694 Asian/other race) was matched 1:1 for demographics, insurance, and income quartile of residence ...
Ashwani K Singal, Yong-Fang Kuo, Juan P. Arab, Ramon Bataller   +3 more
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Impact of Hospital Visitor Restrictions on Racial Disparities in Obstetrics [PDF]

Health Equity, 2020
Racial disparities in both obstetrics and COVID-19 are well documented. Troublingly, implicit biases and related testimonial injustice potentiate adverse outcomes for women of color whose voices and concerns have been historically discredited by the medical establishment.
Norton, Alexandra, Wilson, Tenisha, Geller, Gail, Gross, Marielle S.   +3 more
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Hospital racial composition and the treatment of localized prostate cancer [PDF]

Cancer, 2011
AbstractBACKGROUND:Racial differences in the treatment of men with localized prostate cancer remain poorly understood. This study examines whether hospital racial composition is associated with the type of treatment black and white men receive.METHODS:The authors performed a retrospective cohort study of men in Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End ...
Craig Evan, Pollack, Justin E, Bekelman, K J, Liao, Katrina, Armstrong   +3 more
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Topographies of Gendered Violence: (Trans)Forming Hospitality in Ryka Aoki’s Light from Uncommon Stars

Ilha do Desterro
In this article, I explore Ryka Aoki’s science fiction novel, Light from Uncommon Stars (2021) and its depiction of social and spatial violence against trans* women in a North American context.
Beatriz Hermida Ramos
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Racial Differences in Surgeons and Hospitals for Endometrial Cancer Treatment [PDF]

Medical Care, 2011
To determine whether (1) black and white women with endometrial cancer were treated by different surgical specialties and in different types of hospitals and (2) differences in specialty and hospital type contributed to racial differences in survival.Retrospective cohort study of 12,307 women aged 65 years and older who underwent surgical treatment of ...
Katrina, Armstrong, Thomas C, Randall, Daniel, Polsky, Elizabeth, Moye, Jeffrey H, Silber   +4 more
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