Minority trauma patients tend to cluster at trauma centers with worse-than-expected mortality can this phenomenon help explain racial disparities in trauma outcomes?

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 258, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 572-579

  Haider, Adil H ^a,b   Hashmi, Zain G ^a   Zafar, Syed Nabeel ^c   Hui, Xuan ^a   Schneider, Eric B ^a   Efron, David T ^a   Haut, Elliott R ^a   Cooper, Lisa A ^b   MacKenzie, Ellen J ^b   Cornwell III, Edward E ^c  

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

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Disparities; Outcomes; Quality; Trauma

Indexed keywords

BLUNT TRAUMA; CAUCASIAN; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY HEALTH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); TRAUMA CENTERS; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884499281     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3182a50148     Document Type: Conference Paper

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