Racial and ethnic disparities in interhospital transfer for complex emergency general surgical disease across the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Differential access to specialty surgical care can drive health care disparities, and interhospital transfer (IHT) is one mechanism through which access barriers can be realized for vulnerable populations. The association between race/ethnicity and IHT for patients presenting with complex emergency general surgery (EGS) disease is understudied.

Methods

Using the 2019 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample, we identified patients 18 years and older with 1 of 13 complex EGS diseases based on International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision , diagnosis codes. The primary outcome was IHT. A series of weighted logistic regression models was created to determine the association of race/ethnicity with the primary outcome while controlling for patient and hospital

SUBMITTER: Iantorno SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10008022 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature