Patient and Hospital Factors Associated With Differences in Mortality Rates Among Black and White US Medicare Beneficiaries Hospitalized With COVID-19 Infection.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Black patients hospitalized with COVID-19 may have worse outcomes than White patients because of excess individual risk or because Black patients are disproportionately cared for in hospitals with worse outcomes for all.

Objectives

To examine differences in COVID-19 hospital mortality rates between Black and White patients and to assess whether the mortality rates reflect differences in patient characteristics by race or by the hospitals to which Black and White patients are admitted.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study assessed Medicare beneficiaries admitted with a diagnosis of COVID-19 to 1188 US hospitals from January 1, 2020, through September 21, 2020.

Exposure

Hospital admission for a diagnosis of COVID-19.

Main outcomes and

SUBMITTER: Asch DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11849740 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature