Explaining racial disparities in surgical survival: a tapered match analysis of patient and hospital factors.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Evaluate whether hospital factors, including nurse resources, explain racial differences in Medicare black and white patient surgical outcomes and whether disparities changed over time.

Design

Retrospective tapered-match.

Setting

571 hospitals at two time points (Early Era 2003-2005; Recent Era 2013-2015).

Participants

6752 black patients and three sets of 6752 white controls selected from 107 001 potential controls (Early Era). 4964 black patients and three sets of 4964 white controls selected from 74 108 potential controls (Recent Era).

Interventions

Black patients were matched to white controls on demographics (age, sex, state and year of procedure), procedure (demographics variables plus 136 International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-9

SUBMITTER: Lasater KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10186454 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature