Racial disparities in receiving total hip/knee replacement surgery: The effect of hospital admission sources

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 135-151

  Chen, Jie ^a   Rizzo, John A ^b   Parasuraman, Shreekant ^c   Gunnarsson, Candace ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Johnson Johnson Company   (United States)

^d S2 Statistical Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Hospital admission source; Racial disparity; Total joint replacement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANCESTRY GROUP; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HISPANIC; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873433260     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: 15486869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2013.0026     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prevalence of doctor-diagnosed arthritis-attributable activity limitation-United States, 2003-2005. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2006; 55(40):1089-92.
2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prevalence of disabilities and associated health conditions among adults-United States, 1999. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2001 Feb; 50(7):120-5.
3. Stoddard S, Jans L, Ripple J, et al. Chartbook on work and disability in the United States, 1998: an info use report. U.S. National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, 1998. Available at: http://www.infouse.com/disabilitydata/workdisability/3_2.php.
4. Hootman JM, Helmick CG. Projections of US prevalence of arthritis and associated activity limitations. Arthritis Rheum. 2006 Jan;54(1):226-9.
5. Ibrahim SA. Racial variations in the utilization of knee and hip joint replacement: an introduction and review of the most recent literature. Curr Orthop Pract. 2010 Mar; 21(2):126-31.
6. Chang RW, Pellissier JM, Hazen GB. A cost-effectiveness analysis of total hip arthroplasty for osteoarthritis of the hip. JAMA. 1996 Mar; 275(11):858-65.
7. Emejuaiwe N, Jones A, Ibrahim S, et al. Disparities in joint replacement utilization: a quality of care issue. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2007 Nov-Dec; 25(6 Suppl 47):44-9.
8. Skinner J, Weinstein JN, Sporer SM, et al. Racial, ethnic, and geographic disparities in rates of knee arthroplasty among medicare patients. N Engl J Med. 2003 Oct; 349(14):1350-9.
9. Dunlop DD, Manheim LM, Song J, et al. Age and racial/ethnic disparities in arthritisrelated hip and knee surgeries. Med Care. 2008 Feb; 46(2):200-8.
10. Steel N, Clark A, Lang IA, et al. Racial disparities in receipt of hip and knee joint replacements are not explained by need: the health and retirement study 1998-2004. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2008 Jun; 63(6):629-34.
11. Basu J, Mobley LR. Trends in racial disparities among the elderly for selected procedures. Med Care Res Rev. 2008 Oct;65(5):617-37.
12. Ang DC, Ibrahim SA, Burant CJ, et al. Is there a difference in the perception of symptoms between African Americans and whites with osteoarthritis? J Rheumatol. 2003 Jun;30(6):1305-10.
13. Murphy L, Schwartz TA, Helmick CG, et al. Lifetime risk of symptomatic knee osteoarthritis. Arthritis Rheum. 2008 Sep;59(9):1207-13.
14. Hanchate AD, Zhang Y, Felson D, et al. Exploring the determinants of racial and ethnic disparities in total knee arthroplasty: health insurance, income, and assets. Med Care. 2008 May;46(5):481-8.
15. Andersen R, Newman JF. Societal and individual determinants of medical care utilization in the United States. Milbank Mem Fund Q Health Soc. 1973 Winter;51(1):95-124.
16. Cook BL, Manning WG. Measuring racial/ethnic disparities across the distribution of health care expenditures. Health Serv Res. 2009 Oct; 44(5 Pt 1):1603-21.
17. McGuire TG, Alegria M, Cook BL, et al. Implementing the Institute of Medicine definition of disparities: an application to mental health care. Health Serv Res. 2006 Oct; 41(5):1979-2005.
18. Smedley BD, Stith AY, Nelson AR, (eds.). Unequal treatment: confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2003.
19. Ullman R, Block JA, Stratmann WC. An emergency room's patients: their characteristics and utilization of hospital services. Med Care. 1975 Dec; 13(12):1011-20.
20. Kum-Nji P, Mangrem CL, Wells PJ, et al. Black/white differential use of health services by young children in a rural Mississippi community. South Med J. 2006 Sep; 99(9):957-62.
21. Khaliq AA, Broyles RW. Hospital admissions: who Is admitted through the emergency department? Health Serv Manage Res. 2006 Feb;19(1):13-22.
22. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Healthcare cost and utilization project: a Federal-State-Industry partnership in health data. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2009. Available at: http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/NIS_2009_INTRODUCTION.pdf.
23. Mehrotra C, Remington PL, Naimi TS. Trends in total knee replacement surgeries and implications for public health,1990-2000. Public Health Rep. 2005 May-Jun; 120(3): 278-82.
24. National Institute of Health/NIH Consensus Conference. Total hip replacement: NIH consensus development panel on total hip replacement. JAMA. 1995 Jun; 273(24): 1950-6.
25. Palmer SH, Cross M. Total knee arthroplasty. New York, NY: Medscape Reference, 2009. Available at: http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1250275-overview.
26. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Racial disparities in total knee replacement among medicare enrollees-United States, 2000-2006. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2009 Feb; 58(6):133-8.
27. Kressin NR, Petersen LA. Racial differences in the use of invasive cardiovascular procedures: review of the literature and prescription for future research. Ann Intern Med. 2001 Sep; 135(5):352-66.
28. Phillips KA, Morrison KR, Andersen R, et al. Understanding the context of healthcare utilization: assessing environmental and provider-related variables in the behavioral model of utilization. Health Serv Res. 1998 Aug; 33(3 Pt 1):571-96.
29. Losina E, Wright EA, Kessler CL, et al. Neighborhoods matter: use of hospitals with worse outcomes following total knee replacement by patients from vulnerable populations. Arch Intern Med. 2007 Jan;167(2):182-7.
30. Blinder AS. Wage discrimination: reduced form and structural estimates. J Human Resour. 1973 Autumn;8(4):436-55.
31. Oaxaca R. Male-female wage differentials in urban labor markets. Int Econ Rev. 1973 Oct;14(3): 693-709.
32. Jann B. The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition for linear regression models. College Station, TX: The Stata Journal. 2008; 8(4):453-79.
33. Fairlie R. 2005. An Extension of The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique to logit and probit models. Journal of Economic and Social Measurement. 2005;10(30):305-16.
34. Bartus T. Marginal effects and extending the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to nonlinear models. London, UK: Presentation at the 12th UK Stata Users Group meeting, 2006 Sep 11-12. Available at:http://repec.org/usug2006/bartus_2006_london_p1.pdf.
35. Cooper-Patrick L, Gallo JJ, Gonzales JJ, et al. Race, gender, and partnership in the patient physician relationship. JAMA. 1999 Aug; 282(6):583-9.
36. Ibrahim SA, Whittle J, Bean-Mayberry B, et al. Racial/ethnic variations in physician recommendations for cardiac revascularization. Am J Public Health. 2003 Oct; 93(10): 1689-93.
37. Schulman KA, Berlin JA, Harless W, et al. The effect of race and sex on physicians' recommendations for cardiac catheterization. N Engl J Med. 1999 Feb; 340(8):618-26.
38. DiMatteo MR. Variations in patients' adherence to medical recommendations: a quantitative review of 50 Years of research. Med Care. 2004 Mar;42(3):200-9.
39. Vermerie E, Hearnshaw H, Van Royen P, et al. Patient adherence to treatment: three decades of research: a comprehensive review. J Clin Pharm Ther. 2001 Oct; 26(5): 331-42.
40. Simpson SH, Eurich DT, Majumdar S, et al. A meta-analysis of the association between adherence to drug therapy and mortality. BMJ. 2006 Jul;333(7557):15.
41. Wang PS, Berglund P, Olfson M, et al. Failure and delay in initial treatment contact after first onset of mental disorders in the national comorbidity survey replication. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2005 Jun;62(6):603-13.
42. Sokol MC, McGuigan KA, Verbrugge RR, et al. Impact of medication adherence on hospitalization risk and healthcare cost. Med Care. 2005 Jun; 43(6):521-30.
43. McCombs JS, Thiebaud P, McLaughlin-Miley C, et al. Compliance with drug therapies for the treatment and prevention of osteoporosis. Maturitas. 2004 Jul; 48(3):271-87.
44. Balkrishnan R. The importance of medication adherence in improving chronic-disease related outcomes: what we know and what we need to further know. Med Care. 2005 Jun; 43(6):517-20.
45. Ghods BK, Roter DL, Ford DE, et al. Patient-physician communication in the primary care visits of African Americans and whites with depression. J Gen Intern Med. 2008 May; 23(5):600-6.
46. Johnson RL, Roter D, Powe N, et al. Patient race/ethnicity and quality of patient-physician communication during medical visits. Am J Public Health. 2004 Dec; 94(12): 2084-90.
47. Suarez-Almazor ME, Souchek J, Kelly PA, et al. Ethnic variation in knee replacement-patient preferences or uninformed disparity? Arch Inter Med. 2005 May;165(10):1117-24.
48. Ritter MA, Harty LD, Davis KE, et al. Simultaneous bilateral, staged bilateral, and unilateral total knee arthroplasty: a survival analysis. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2003 Aug; 85-A(8):1532-7.