Clocking Injustice: Racial Disparities in Specialty Wait Times.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Timely access to care is associated with improved morbidity, mortality, and quality of life, making disparate access to specialty care a potential contributor to racial inequities in health outcomes. In this nationwide analysis, we quantified specialty care waits by race and ethnicity and identified potential drivers of observed disparities.

Study setting and design

The U.S. Veterans Health Administration (VHA) provides care directly through its network of 170 medical centers and 1,193 associated outpatient clinics. In addition, the VHA pays for millions of appointments with community-based specialists each year. We used multivariate regression models and Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition to identify drivers of disparities between White and minoritized veterans

SUBMITTER: Asfaw DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12461106 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature