Provider Care Segregation and Hospital-Region Racial Disparities in the United States for Acute Ischemic Stroke and Endovascular Therapy Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reasons for racial disparities in the use and outcomes of endovascular treatment (ET) are not known. We examined patterns in care segregation for acute ischemic stroke (AIS) in the United States, and outcomes of segregation of care after ET.

Methods and results

We used deidentified Medicare data sets to identify AIS admissions between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2019, using validated International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes. For AIS, we calculated (1) the proportion of White patients at the hospital, (2) the proportional difference in the proportion of White patients between hospital patients and the county, and (3) provider care segregation by the dissimilarity index for ET cases. Using unadjusted and adjusted mul

SUBMITTER: Daniel D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10926824 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature