Stroke Center Certification and Within-Hospital Racial Disparities in Treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Despite improvements in access to stroke technology, it remains unclear whether Black and White patients with stroke experience similar benefits after a hospital becomes stroke certified and whether stroke center expansion has changed disparities between Black and White patients over time.

Objective

To examine the association of hospital stroke center certification with receipt of acute ischemic stroke treatments and health outcomes between Black and White patients with stroke.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study implemented a linear probability model with hospital fixed effects to evaluate changes in outcomes for Black and White patients, comparing outcomes before and after a hospital was certified as a stroke center (treatment group) relat

SUBMITTER: Hsia RY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12311716 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature