Inefficiency in Delivery of General Surgery to Black Patients: A National Inpatient Sample Study.

ABSTRACT: Background  Racial disparities in outcomes among patients in the United States are widely recognized, but disparities in treatment are less commonly understood. This study is intended to identify treatment disparities in delivery of surgery and time to surgery for diagnoses managed by general surgeons-appendicitis, cholecystitis, gallstone pancreatitis, abdominal wall hernias, intestinal obstructions, and viscus perforations. Methods  The National Inpatient Sample (NIS) was used to estimate and analyze disparities in delivery of surgery, type of surgery received, and timing of surgery. Age-adjusted means were compared by race/ethnicity and trends in treatment disparities were evaluated from 1993 to 2017. Linear modeling was used to measure trends in treatment and outcome disparities over t

SUBMITTER: Bliton JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10730284 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature