Association between hospitals caring for a disproportionately high percentage of minority trauma patients and increased mortality: A nationwide analysis of 434 hospitals

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 63-70

  Haider, Adil H ^a   Ong'uti, Sharon ^b   Efron, David T ^a   Oyetunji, Tolulope A ^b   Crandall, Marie L ^c   Scott, Valerie K ^a   Haut, Elliott R ^a   Schneider, Eric B ^a   Powe, Neil R ^d   Cooper, Lisa A ^a   Cornwell III, Edward E ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856002370     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2011.254     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Haider AH, Chang DC, Efron DT, Haut ER, Crandall M, Cornwell EE III. Race and insurance status as risk factors for trauma mortality. Arch Surg. 2008;143 (10):945-949.
2. Crompton JG, Pollack KM, Oyetunji T, et al. Racial disparities in motorcycle-related mortality: an analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank. Am J Surg. 2010; 200(2):191-196.
3. Haider AH, Efron DT, Haut ER, DiRusso SM, Sullivan T, Cornwell EE III. Black children experience worse clinical and functional outcomes after traumatic brain injury: an analysis of the National Pediatric Trauma Registry. J Trauma. 2007; 62(5):1259-1262, discussion 1262-1263.
4. Wong MD, Shapiro MF, Boscardin WJ, Ettner SL. Contribution of major diseases to disparities in mortality. N Engl J Med. 2002;347(20):1585-1592. (Pubitemid 35315840)
5. Smedley BD, Stith AY, Nelson AR. Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. Washington, DC: National Academies Press; 2003.
6. Institute of Medicine. Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 2001.
7. Fiscella K, Franks P, Gold MR, Clancy CM. Inequality in quality: addressing socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic disparities in health care. JAMA. 2000;283 (19):2579-2584. (Pubitemid 30324204)
8. Hasnain-Wynia R, Baker DW, Nerenz D, et al. Disparities in health care are driven by where minority patients seek care: examination of the hospital quality alliance measures. Arch Intern Med. 2007;167(12):1233-1239. (Pubitemid 46998493)
9. Baicker K, Chandra A, Skinner JS. Geographic variation in health care and the problem of measuring racial disparities. Perspect Biol Med. 2005;48(1)(suppl):S42-S53.
10. Ly DP, Lopez L, Isaac T, Jha AK. How do black-serving hospitals perform on patient safety indicators? implications for national public reporting and pay-for-performance. Med Care. 2010;48(12):1133-1137.
11. Popescu I, Werner RM, Vaughan-Sarrazin MS, Cram P. Characteristics and outcomes of America's lowest-performing hospitals: an analysis of acute myocardial infarction hospital care in the United States. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2009;2(3):221-227.
12. Lucas FL, Stukel TA, Morris AM, Siewers AE, Birkmeyer JD. Race and surgical mortality in the United States. Ann Surg. 2006;243(2):281-286. (Pubitemid 43185449)
13. Skinner J, Chandra A, Staiger D, Lee J, McClellan M. Mortality after acute myocardial infarction in hospitals that disproportionately treat black patients. Circulation. 2005;112(17):2634-2641. (Pubitemid 41532600)
14. Oyetunji T, Crompton JG, Efron DT, et al. Simplifying physiologic injury severity measurement for predicting trauma outcomes. J Surg Res. 2010;159(2):627-632.
15. Haider AH, Chang DC, Haut ER, Cornwell EE III, Efron DT. Mechanism of injury predicts patient mortality and impairment after blunt trauma. J Surg Res. 2009; 153(1):138-142.
16. Williams RL. A note on robust variance estimation for cluster-correlated data. Biometrics. 2000;56(2):645-646. (Pubitemid 30422662)
17. Bach PB, Pham HH, Schrag D, Tate RC, Hargraves JL. Primary care physicians who treat blacks and whites. N Engl J Med. 2004;351(6):575-584. (Pubitemid 39028925)
18. Jha AK, Stone R, Lave J, Chen H, Klusaritz H, Volpp K. The concentration of hospital care for black veterans in Veterans Affairs hospitals: implications for clinical outcomes. J Healthc Qual. 2010;32(6):52-61.
19. Werner RM, Goldman LE, Dudley RA. Comparison of change in quality of care between safety-net and non-safety-net hospitals. JAMA. 2008;299(18):2180-2187. (Pubitemid 351679709)
20. Cudnik MT, Sayre MR, Hiestand B, Steinberg SM. Are all trauma centers created equally? a statewide analysis. Acad Emerg Med. 2010;17(7):701-708.
21. Shafi S, Friese R, Gentilello LM. Moving beyond personnel and process: a case for incorporating outcome measures in the trauma center designation process. Arch Surg. 2008;143(2):115-119, discussion 120.
22. Shafi S, Nathens AB, Parks J, Cryer HM, Fildes JJ, Gentilello LM. Trauma quality improvement using risk-adjusted outcomes. J Trauma. 2008;64(3):599-604, discussion 604-606.
23. Shafi S, Stewart RM, Nathens AB, Friese RS, Frankel H, Gentilello LM. Significant variations in mortality occur at similarly designated trauma centers. Arch Surg. 2009;144(1):64-68.
24. Cudnik MT, Newgard CD, Sayre MR, Steinberg SM. Level I versus Level II trauma centers: an outcomes-based assessment. J Trauma. 2009;66(5):1321-1326.
25. MacKenzie EJ, Rivara FP, Jurkovich GJ, et al. A national evaluation of the effect of trauma-center care on mortality. N Engl J Med. 2006;354(4):366-378. (Pubitemid 43145061)
26. Rosen H, Saleh F, Lipsitz S, Rogers SO Jr, Gawande AA. Downwardly mobile: the accidental cost of being uninsured. Arch Surg. 2009;144(11):1006-1011.
27. Institute of Medicine. Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 2004.
28. Leukhardt WH, Golob JF, McCoy AM, Fadlalla AM, Malangoni MA, Claridge JA. Follow-up disparities after trauma: a real problem for outcomes research. Am J Surg. 2010;199(3):348-352, discussion 353.
29. Mannion R, Davies HT,Marshall MN. Cultural characteristics of "high" and "low"performing hospitals. J Health Organ Manag. 2005;19(6):431-439. (Pubitemid 41667707)
30. Meyer JA, Silow-Carroll S, Kutyla T, et al. Hospital Quality: Ingredients for Success; Overview and Lessons Learned. New York, NY: Commonwealth Fund; 2004.
31. Hosking JE, Ameratunga SN, Bramley DM, Crengle SM. Reducing ethnic disparities in the quality of trauma care: an important research gap. Ann Surg. 2011; 253(2):233-237.
32. Green AR, Tan-McGrory A, Cervantes MC, Betancourt JR. Leveraging quality improvement to achieve equity in health care. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2010; 36(10):435-442.
33. Brooke BS, Efron DT, Chang DC, Haut ER, Cornwell EE III. Patterns and outcomes among penetrating trauma recidivists: it only gets worse. J Trauma. 2006; 61(1):16-19, discussion 20.