Primary Care Engagement and Post-Hospitalization Outcomes Among Cape Verdean Adults.

ABSTRACT: The Cape Verdean diaspora in the United States is growing, yet Cape Verdean adults remain underrepresented in health services research. We retrospectively analyzed 583 hospitalized Cape Verdean adults admitted to a tertiary care center from 2017 to 2023, and compared their post-discharge outcomes and healthcare utilization with other racial and ethnic groups. Sequential nested regression models using inverse-probability weighting assessed how demographic, clinical, and community-level characteristics using the Environmental Justice Index (EJI) mediated the observed differences. We found that Cape Verdean adults had uniquely high primary care engagement, a difference which was magnified after EJI adjustment. They also had lower rates of specialist visits and higher emergency department use,

SUBMITTER: Marinacci LX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12553928 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature