Leveraging multi-database linkages to assess racial and ethnic disparities among Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales cases in Tennessee, 2015-2019.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Awareness of health disparities' impact on clinical outcomes is increasing. However, public health's ability to highlight these trends can be limited by data missingness, such as on race and ethnicity. To better understand race and ethnicity's impact, we compared all-cause 30-day mortality rates between non-Hispanic (NH) Black, NH White, and Hispanic/NH other racial and ethnic patients among cases of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE).

Methods

We performed data linkage using CRE statewide surveillance, Hospital Discharge Data System, and vital records data to obtain demographics and clinical outcomes on CRE cases in TN. We evaluated the association between race and ethnicity with all-cause 30-day mortality among CRE cases.

Results

Among 2,804 repor

SUBMITTER: Kirtz EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11611507 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature