Trends in Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Receipt of Lifesaving Procedures for Hospitalized Patients With Decompensated Cirrhosis in the US, 2009-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Patients with decompensated cirrhosis are hospitalized for acute management with temporizing and lifesaving procedures. Published data to inform intervention development in this area are more than a decade old, and it is not clear whether there have been improvements in disparities in the receipt of these procedures over time.

Objective

To evaluate the associations of race and ethnicity with receipt of procedures to treat decompensated cirrhosis over time in the US.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cross-sectional study analyzed National Inpatient Sample data on cirrhosis admissions among patients with portal hypertension-related complications from 2009 to 2018. All hospital discharges for individuals aged 18 years and older from 2009 to

SUBMITTER: Nephew LD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10359964 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature